Ping? I'd hate to have to remove the driver instead. Regards, Peter Hurley On 12/01/2015 04:56 PM, Peter Hurley wrote: > 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
