Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: 8250: Report which option to enable for blacklisted PCI devices

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Feb 12, 2022 at 05:30:59PM +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Provide information in the kernel log as to what configuration option to 
> enable for PCI UART devices that have been blacklisted in the generic 
> PCI 8250 UART driver and which have a dedicated driver available to 
> handle that has been disabled.  The rationale is there is no easy way 
> for the user to map a specific PCI vendor:device pair to an individual 
> dedicated driver while the generic driver has this information readily 
> available and it will likely be confusing that the generic driver does 
> not register such a port.
> 
> A message is then printed like:
> 
> serial 0000:04:00.3: ignoring port, enable SERIAL_8250_PERICOM to handle
> 
> when an affected device is encountered and the generic driver rejects it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>

I've applied patch 1 of this series, but this is really an odd one.

We don't do this for any other driver subsystem, so why is it really
needed?  What is so special about this driver that distros can't
just enable all of the drivers and all is good?  What is keeping those
drivers fromb eing enabled?

thanks,

greg k-h