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authorStefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@b1-systems.com>2013-07-01 09:14:21 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-07-26 15:53:34 -0700
commit972ce08578e0db8663740faea420699c01729f41 (patch)
tree0b53c2121047750d2fc86fc592dd6b511f97bea3 /drivers/tty/serial/8250
parent003236d9ac4d02721867e47f7ad4371ab7f74689 (diff)
8250_pci: improve code comments and Kconfig help
The recent regression about NetMos 9835 Multi-I/O boards indicates that comment pointing to the parport_serial driver could be helpful. Signed-off-by: Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@b1-systems.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/tty/serial/8250')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c6
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig2
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
index c52948b368d8..c626c4fcf9b8 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c
@@ -4797,6 +4797,12 @@ static struct pci_device_id serial_pci_tbl[] = {
PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM, 0x0299,
0, 0, pbn_b0_bt_2_115200 },
+ /*
+ * other NetMos 9835 devices are most likely handled by the
+ * parport_serial driver, check drivers/parport/parport_serial.c
+ * before adding them here.
+ */
+
{ PCI_VENDOR_ID_NETMOS, PCI_DEVICE_ID_NETMOS_9901,
0xA000, 0x1000,
0, 0, pbn_b0_1_115200 },
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
index a1ba94d64885..f3b306efaa59 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ config SERIAL_8250_PCI
This builds standard PCI serial support. You may be able to
disable this feature if you only need legacy serial support.
Saves about 9K.
+ Note that serial ports on NetMos 9835 Multi-I/O cards are handled
+ by the parport_serial driver, enabled with CONFIG_PARPORT_SERIAL.
config SERIAL_8250_HP300
tristate