On 01/12/2016 09:01 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > 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? I'd appreciate if you would, since you have the hardware to test if it works for you. >> 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. Ok, thanks. Feel free to send me direct email if you have test patches or other questions regarding this. 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
