[SERIAL] Remove struct pci_board from init_fn
Traditionally, we allocated the private array of port parameters based on the detected board->num_ports, and then called the init_fn with the board pointer (which points into the global table.) Some init_fn implementations modify num_ports, which therefore affects the global table. Unfortunately, this means that if the init_fn increases num_ports (because we have two almost identical cards, the first with a smaller number of ports than the second), we will overwrite memory which hasn't been allocated to us. This cset no longer passes the board pointer into the init_fn, but instead allows the init_fn to return the number of ports found, or zero to use the default value in board->num_ports, or negative error number.
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