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

[Rob Groner]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg at kroah.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:41 PM
> To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com>
> Cc: Rob Groner <rgroner at RTD.com>; kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding.
> 
> 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

I'm a little confused by that, but I'm happily standing by, ready to test the result, or any other way I can help.

As long as our boards that use the Exar chip aren't sucked up by the kernel 8250 driver, then mission accomplished!

Rob G.