Hi Peter On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP && !SERIAL_8250_PNP do you prepare this patch or I do it? > > If the probe can be read-only (or at least improve the confidence level that > the part is a fintek before i/o writes), then that would be ok. > > My concern is that a distro will enable this fintek driver and millions > of machines that have standard 16550A ports (every desktop shipped in the > last 2 decades) will be unsafely probed. I can take a close look to this and try to come up with a solution. Thanks for your help!! -- Ricardo Ribalda -- 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
