From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH) Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:41:29 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] 8250_pci: Prevent Exar/RTD Boards from binding. In-Reply-To: References: <20150925191412.GA4248@kroah.com> <56059ECA.1070803@rtd.com> <20150926004552.GB10629@kroah.com> <1443444829.2619.7.camel@kernel-dev> <20150928141159.GC20559@kroah.com> <20151111173211.GA20959@kroah.com> Message-ID: <20151111214129.GA24111@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:50:33PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 11:02 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 03:46:23PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: > > > > > > > > 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