On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> > The only downside is >> > that the module gets loaded even if the device is not there. >> >> How is that? > > Alan explained that in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/20/103 > > Quoting from his mail "you reference the methods in it so it will > always be dragged in". > > And I wanted to verify that so I tested today morning after removing the > card from my local system and after booting I saw having 8250_gpi loaded. Ah, it is in case "exar as a library". In case "exar as a separate driver" other way around: it will drag methods from 8250_pci if any. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko -- 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
