On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 04:38:37PM -0400, Rob Groner wrote: > On Tue, 2016-05-31 at 13:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 06:41:24PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: > > > I am trying to load a driver for an Exar serial chip, but that chip is gobbled > > > up by the 8250 driver on boot. > > > > Why does the in-kernel driver not support this chip? Do you have a > > pointer to the Exar source anywhere? > > This is kind of an ongoing topic since around December. yes, and new driver was provided to have the gpio as a separate platform driver which was also tested by Rob and he confirmed that everything is working as expected. But the reviews asked for a total rewrite with the exar codes split out from 8250_pci, and i got busy with a change of dayjob. If you want to have a look at the final version that was submitted then it is at: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-serial/msg20859.html I thought to do it this weekend but I will be again travelling to UK this weekend so again postponed for atleast one month. Regards Sudip _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
