-----Original Message----- From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@kroah.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:41 PM To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Cc: Rob Groner <rgroner@RTD.com>; kernelnewbies@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@kroah.com> wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:46:23PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: >
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> > 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.