From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752038AbbIRRv6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:51:58 -0400 Received: from smtprelay05.ispgateway.de ([80.67.18.28]:46273 "EHLO smtprelay05.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278AbbIRRv5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:51:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 30462 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 18 Sep 2015 13:51:56 EDT From: "Dr. Wolfgang Wilhelm" To: Greg KH Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 19:52:14 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: problem with "serial" driver in kernel 3.16.0 CC: stable@vger.kernel.org, Austin S Hemmelgarn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <55FC6B6E.12823.3BD850@wilhelm.fastcomtec.com> In-reply-to: <20150918162348.GB19362@kroah.com> References: <55FABF0F.5831.182EDC5@wilhelm.fastcomtec.com>, <55FBD835.18717.A6454E@wilhelm.fastcomtec.com>, <20150918162348.GB19362@kroah.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41, DE v4.41 R1) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Df-Sender: d2lsaGVsbUBmYXN0Y29tdGVjLmNvbQ== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 An: Wolfgang Wilhelm Kopie an: stable@vger.kernel.org, Austin S Hemmelgarn , 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