[PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding.
Greg KH
greg at kroah.com
Fri Sep 25 13:18:51 EDT 2015
On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 11:46:29AM -0400, Rob Groner wrote:
> Serial boards made by RTD using the Exar XR17V358 chip
> rely on the extra capabilities of the Exar-provided driver
> to allow configuration of the board. When support for
> the Exar chip was added to the kernel 8250_pci driver, this
> then prevented easy use of the board by customers for anything
> other than standard serial usage in RS232 mode.
>
> This patch prevents RTD sub-vendor boards from being bound
> by the 8250_pci driver, if it uses the XR17V358 chip. Other
> RTD boards using Exar chips are not affected.
>
> Signed-off-by Rob Groner <rgroner at rtd.com>
> ---
> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> index 68042dd..89baf7f 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
> @@ -359,6 +359,16 @@ static void pci_ni8430_exit(struct pci_dev *dev)
> iounmap(p);
> }
>
> +/*
> + * RTD Embedded Technologies, Inc. boards
> + * Prevent from being bound to 8250 driver
> + */
> +static int
> +pci_xr17v35x_rtd_probe(struct pci_dev *dev)
> +{
> + return -ENODEV;
> +}
> +
> /* SBS Technologies Inc. PMC-OCTPRO and P-OCTAL cards */
> static int
> sbs_setup(struct serial_private *priv, const struct pciserial_board *board,
> @@ -2105,6 +2115,8 @@ pci_wch_ch38x_setup(struct serial_private *priv,
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PERICOM_PI7C9X7954 0x7954
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_PERICOM_PI7C9X7958 0x7958
>
> +#define PCI_SUBVENDOR_ID_RTD 0x1435
> +
> /* Unknown vendors/cards - this should not be in linux/pci_ids.h */
> #define PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_UNKNOWN_0x1584 0x1584
> #define PCI_SUBDEVICE_ID_UNKNOWN_0x1588 0x1588
> @@ -2608,6 +2620,14 @@ static struct pci_serial_quirk pci_serial_quirks[] __refdata = {
> {
> .vendor = PCI_VENDOR_ID_EXAR,
> .device = PCI_DEVICE_ID_EXAR_XR17V358,
> + .subvendor = PCI_SUBVENDOR_ID_RTD,
> + .subdevice = PCI_ANY_ID,
> + .probe = pci_xr17v35x_rtd_probe,
> + .setup = pci_xr17v35x_setup,
Why do you need the .setup callback if you are just not wanting to bind
to this driver?
thanks,
greg k-h
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