Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Mark Fintek driver as PNP incompatible

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On 01/12/2016 09:19 AM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> From: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The 8250_fintek driver advertises as the PNP0501 driver; however this
> conflicts with the standard 16550A uart PNP0501. The conflict causes
> the 8250_fintek driver to load with _every_ PNP0501, but never probe,
> and causing the entire 8250 driver stack to unload if the 8250_fintek
> driver is unloaded (modprobe doesn't know that 8250_pnp rather than
> 8250_fintek claimed the resource).
> 
> Credit-to: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

:)

Not sure about all of that, but

Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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