On Thu, Apr 11, 2024 at 11:29:27AM -0400, parker@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > From: Parker Newman <pnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > This patch adds support for most of Connect Tech's (CTI) PCI/PCIe > serial cards to the 8250_exar driver. > > Major changes: > - Added (optional) board_setup function called once during probe > - Added exar_get_nr_ports function > - Removed old Connect Tech setup functions > - Added new UART family based CTI setup functions > - Added PCI IDs entries for Exar XR17V25x and CTI FPGA based cards > - Added MPIO functions for configuring/setting a single MPIO > - Added support for reading from the Exar EEPROM When you need to list the different things you did in a single patch, that's a huge hint it needs to be broken up into smaller, easier to review, pieces. > > Signed-off-by: Parker Newman <pnewman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c | 1089 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-- > 1 file changed, 1019 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-) Reviewing 1000 lines of changes at once that does different things, isn't easy. Please break this up into smaller, one-logical-step-at-a-time patches. thanks, greg k-h