Hi Ricardo, There are some problems with the 8250_fintek driver. Advertising as the PNP0501 driver but also having a module dependency on the 8250 driver (which is also advertising as the PNP0501 driver) is not a stable configuration. The problem is that the 8250 driver will probe first (because of the module dependency) and claim the pnp resource so the the 8250_fintek driver never probes. But it stays loaded; so if it is unloaded, it drops the module reference and causes the 8250 driver to also unload. The other problem is the *blind writing to port i/o addresses* during the probe to id the Fintek part. This is not safe and not ok. Some other mechanism for id'ing the part is required. Is there some non-destructive method of id'ing the Fintek part? Regards, Peter Hurley -- 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
