From: "Dr. Wolfgang Wilhelm" <wilhelm@fastcomtec.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
Austin S Hemmelgarn <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: problem with "serial" driver in kernel 3.16.0
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:52:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55FC6B6E.12823.3BD850@wilhelm.fastcomtec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150918162348.GB19362@kroah.com>
Yes, we make this card.
Here is a link to the mpa3 software for Windows and Wine/Linux
including all sources of linux code and the driver fastmpa.ko:
http://www.fastcomtec.com/fwww/supp/mpa3/wmpa3.zip
username: mpa3
password: midas16
Wolfgang Wilhelm
On 18 Sep 2015 at 9:23 Greg KH wrote:
Datum: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 09:23:48 -0700
Von: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
An: Wolfgang Wilhelm <wilhelm@fastcomtec.com>
Kopie an: stable@vger.kernel.org, Austin S Hemmelgarn
<ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Betreff: Re: problem with "serial" driver in kernel 3.16.0
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 11:24:05AM +0200, Wolfgang Wilhelm wrote:
> Thankyou very much for your quick answers. I searched now
> in the linux sources for the problem and I think I could find it
> in the file linux-source-3.16/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
>
> There is a function serial_pci_guessboard and a blacklist
> including the vendor- and device-ids of 3 softmodems and
> 2 multi-io cards. I think if the vendor id 0x10e8 (standard AMCC)
> and device id 0x8226 could be inserted into that blacklist
> I could load our driver and get the software for our MPA-3
> multiparameter system working. It seems that these id's are
> not really used by any existing serial card, but this guessboard
> function anyway takes our card as a serial board.
Who makes this card, you? Why is the serial driver grabbing it if it
is
not a serial device?
> Is this a matter of the Debian distribution or the general linux
kernel?
The kernel is responsible for this, but I would like to see your
driver
before marking this device as blacklisted. Do you have a pointer to
the
source for it anywhere?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-09-18 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-09-17 13:24 problem with "serial" driver in kernel 3.16.0 Wolfgang Wilhelm
2015-09-17 13:54 ` Greg KH
2015-09-17 20:03 ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-09-18 9:24 ` Wolfgang Wilhelm
2015-09-18 16:23 ` Greg KH
2015-09-18 17:52 ` Dr. Wolfgang Wilhelm [this message]
2016-11-23 13:14 ` Problem with USB driver using two devices Wolfgang Wilhelm
2016-11-23 14:57 ` Greg KH
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