[PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding.

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:50:33PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> 
>     On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:46:23PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote:
>     >
> 
> <snip>
> 
>     > > I know you're incredibly busy, so I added as much "so" to the week as I
>     could.
>     > > Any way I can help with this endeavor, other than testing?
>     >
>     > Would it be possible to consider my original patch, if putting in the
>     Exar driver is too time consuming?
>     > I'd rather have the Exar driver than my patch, but I'd also rather have
>     my patch than the current situation.
> 
>     I don't remember what your "original patch" was, sorry.
> 
> 
> Hi Greg,
> Quoting from your old reply
> > > > At first glance, the driver looks pretty good.  Let me do a bit of
> > > > cleanup on it for mostly coding style changes and removing some old api
> > > > support and see what the patch is.
> 
> We all know you are busy. If you want I can try the cleanup and send it to Rob
> for testing.

Yes please, it should just require a change to the existing 8250 driver
code for this platform, it should not be a stand-alone driver.

thanks,

greg k-h