> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 5:13 PM > To: Rob Groner <rgroner@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@xxxxxxxxx>; > kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding. > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:49:11PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: > > > > 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! > > It should be sucked up by the 8250 driver, the driver they posted is just a fork > of the existing driver with a few small, odd, modifications. > the 8250 framework is _so_ flexible that I'm sure it can support this hardware > as-is, the hardware just needs to be properly described to the driver. > > The last time I did this, it took 2 days of reading the driver and figuring it all > out, and then only 16 new lines of code/tables added to the driver to support > a new device that was a bit "odd" from a normal uart. I expect the same > thing would be needed here, but maybe more lines of code :) > > thanks, > > greg k-h Oooo, ok. Fantastic! Testing is standing by. Rob G _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
