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

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Hi Greg

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:38 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +     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?

The great advantage of the fintek driver against the standard pnp is
the rs485 functionality, which is something I don't expect to be used
by the distro users.

This patch buys me some time until I figure out a good way for both
drivers to coexist.


Regards!


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Ricardo Ribalda
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