On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 06:19:06PM +0100, 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> > Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 3 ++- > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig > index 6412f1455beb..3b6cfd3a3ac6 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig > +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig > @@ -331,7 +331,8 @@ config SERIAL_8250_OMAP_TTYO_FIXUP > > config SERIAL_8250_FINTEK > tristate "Support for Fintek F81216A LPC to 4 UART" > - depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP > + depends on SERIAL_8250 && PNP && !SERIAL_8250_PNP > + default n This is only going to help at build time, not run time, which I thought you wanted to help resolve. In other words, this isn't going to help 99% of the users out there as they use distro kernels that enable everything. Is that ok? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
