From: Matthew Howell <matthew.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Sealevel XR17V35X based devices are inoperable on kernel versions 4.11 and above due to a change in the GPIO preconfiguration introduced in commit 7dea8165f1d. This patch fixes this by preconfiguring the GPIO on Sealevel cards to the value (0x00) used prior to commit 7dea8165f1d With GPIOs preconfigured as per commit 7dea8165f1d all ports on Sealevel XR17V35X based devices become stuck in high impedance mode, regardless of dip-switch or software configuration. This causes the device to become effectively unusable. This patch (in various forms) has been distributed to our customers and no issues related to it have been reported. Fixes: 7dea8165f1d ("serial: exar: Preconfigure xr17v35x MPIOs as output") Signed-off-by: Matthew Howell <matthew.howell@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Patch resubmitted as per comments received on https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg39371.html Moved problem description and justification above the signed-off-by line. checkpatch.pl reports no styling issues with the diff below. Let me know if I need to make any other changes. --- linux/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c.orig 2020-07-09 11:05:03.920060577 -0400 +++ linux/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar.c 2020-07-13 11:54:44.386718167 -0400 @@ -326,7 +326,20 @@ static void setup_gpio(struct pci_dev *p * devices will export them as GPIOs, so we pre-configure them safely * as inputs. */ - u8 dir = pcidev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_EXAR ? 0xff : 0x00; + + u8 dir = 0x00; + + if ((pcidev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_EXAR) && + (pcidev->subsystem_vendor != PCI_VENDOR_ID_SEALEVEL)) + { + // Configure GPIO as inputs for Commtech adapters + dir = 0xff; + } + else + { + // Configure GPIO as outputs for SeaLevel adapters + dir = 0x00; + } writeb(0x00, p + UART_EXAR_MPIOINT_7_0); writeb(0x00, p + UART_EXAR_MPIOLVL_7_0);