-----Original Message----- From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:13 PM To: Rob Groner <rgroner@RTD.com> Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>; kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:49:11PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote:
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!
It should be sucked up by the 8250 driver, the driver they posted is just a fork of the existing driver with a few small, odd, modifications. the 8250 framework is _so_ flexible that I'm sure it can support this hardware as-is, the hardware just needs to be properly described to the driver.
The last time I did this, it took 2 days of reading the driver and figuring it all out, and then only 16 new lines of code/tables added to the driver to support a new device that was a bit "odd" from a normal uart. I expect the same thing would be needed here, but maybe more lines of code :)
thanks,
greg k-h
Oooo, ok. Fantastic! Testing is standing by. Rob G