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| author | Stefan Seyfried <seife+kernel@b1-systems.com> | 2013-07-01 09:14:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-07-26 15:53:34 -0700 |
| commit | 972ce08578e0db8663740faea420699c01729f41 (patch) | |
| tree | 0b53c2121047750d2fc86fc592dd6b511f97bea3 /drivers | |
| parent | 003236d9ac4d02721867e47f7ad4371ab7f74689 (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')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/tty/serial/8250/Kconfig | 2 |
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 |