> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 4:41 PM > To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Rob Groner <rgroner@xxxxxxx>; kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding. > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:50:33PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:46:23PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > I know you're incredibly busy, so I added as much "so" to the week as > I > > could. > > > > Any way I can help with this endeavor, other than testing? > > > > > > Would it be possible to consider my original patch, if putting in the > > Exar driver is too time consuming? > > > I'd rather have the Exar driver than my patch, but I'd also rather have > > my patch than the current situation. > > > > I don't remember what your "original patch" was, sorry. > > > > > > Hi Greg, > > Quoting from your old reply > > > > > At first glance, the driver looks pretty good. Let me do a bit > > > > > of cleanup on it for mostly coding style changes and removing > > > > > some old api support and see what the patch is. > > > > We all know you are busy. If you want I can try the cleanup and send > > it to Rob for testing. > > Yes please, it should just require a change to the existing 8250 driver code for > this platform, it should not be a stand-alone driver. > > thanks, > > greg k-h I'm a little confused by that, but I'm happily standing by, ready to test the result, or any other way I can help. As long as our boards that use the Exar chip aren't sucked up by the kernel 8250 driver, then mission accomplished! Rob G. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
