> After adding the IDs and descriptions I found unfortunately that the module > 8250_pci reclaims the pci device as a serial card only and this prevents the > successful registration of the parport_serial driver (which also depends on > 8250_pci). > > So I blacklisted the card in 8250_pci.c using the sofmodem blacklist mechanism > already in place. I know this isn't really the right place to do it but it > works and I didn't find another way. Actually I think it is the right place to do it. Prior to that the only cases we've had to deal with are board specifc rules such as for the Timedia/Sunix card. The softmodem bit of the blacklist wants renaming and a comment adding to each group giving the reason. > Eventually the parallel and the serial ports are detected but only the parallel > port works because the serial ports are wrongly recognized as XScale when they > are actually 16550 clones: if I set the port type by hand with setserial they work. > > So I changed the autoconfig function in 8250.c this way: checks also the RTOIE > bit in IER to detect the port as XSCALE. I don't think this is really correct > but I've no knowledge on XSCALE or my serial card hardware to do it better. Trying to get autodetection right is always a little bit exciting and one device tends to break another. In this case you know the device type and have a PCI identifier you should be able to set up->port.flags |= UPF_FIXED_TYPE; up->port.type = PORT_16550A; before the call to serial8250_register_8250_port(); Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
