On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 19:36 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:34:54AM -0500, Rob Groner wrote: > > On Fri, 2015-11-13 at 13:07 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > <snip> > > > And Rob, your initial patch (not binding to these devices) will force > > > all users to use the out of tree driver. Your device was added to 8250 > > > by Soeren Grunewald and I guess he wants to use an upsteam driver for > > > his device. > > > > My patch (unless I did it wrong) would only force users of RTD-produced > > boards from using the out of tree driver. Soeren included support for > > all boards that had the Exar chipset as the device ID (which includes > > ours). I tried to exclude only those boards that have an Exar Device > > ID, but an RTD sub-vendor device ID. > > Yes, i saw that. But I can assume there will be users of your board who > might like to use the upstream driver and they may not have any use of > reconfiguring. Anyway, this will be Greg's decision. I understand that argument (though users of a PC104 form factor board are few), but unless the previous user of their board happened to leave it in the configuration the new user needs, they'll have to reconfigure it at least once. Configuration persists in the EEPROM. Rob G -- 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
