On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 12:42 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue >> <pure.logic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Andy, >> > >> > If you are going to start removing working PCI devices from the PCI >> > config table in favour of a shim in SERIAL_8250_LPSS then the very >> > minimum should be some sort of dependency link between >> > SERIAL_8250_LPSS >> > and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI in kconfig. >> > >> > A user could reasonably read the QRK datasheet - switch on >> > CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI and then wonder why no console output >> > happened >> > on boot. S/he shouldn't have to know that devices were moved from >> > the >> > PCI driver to an LPSS shim driver or that the 8250_lpss driver now >> > needs to be selected instead of the intuitively correct 8250_pci >> > driver. >> >> That is taken care of since default is set to SERIAL_8250 (you even >> don't need to have PCI driver enabled!). >> Doesn't work for you? > > The default may be set to SERIAL_8250 but, without the QRK specific > entry in 8250_pci.c you won't get console output. > > So if you are going to remove the QRK entry from 8250_pci.c and stuff > it into 8250_lpss.c then 8250_lpss needs to be selected by > CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI. Why?! Now it should be enough to have SERIAL_8250 set to non-n to have 8250_lpss compiled. Can you check it? > > Otherwise the person doing the config needs to know that stuff was > moved from one file to another - even though it's a PCI device (not an > LPSS/ACPI enumerated device) - which seems like an unreasonable level > of knowledge to assume on the part of the user. > I understand that, that's why Heikki proposed to do something sane for 8250_mid and I use it as an example for this one. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko -- 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
