On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 11:53:49PM +0100, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote: > 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. Why not? Are you saying that 99.9% of Linux users will never be able to use your driver? > This patch buys me some time until I figure out a good way for both > drivers to coexist. Let's just mark it as broken, as Peter originally did, if they can't coexist today, until that gets fixed. That should give people more of a reason to work on it :) 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
