Re: Have my PA8800 back online... (serial port missing on v4.14)
Hi Andy,
On 13.12.2017 16:16, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 21:11 +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
>> On 11.12.2017 09:26, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 20:06 +0100, Helge Deller wrote:
>
>> Before your patch this check was inside the function
>> serial_pci_guess_board()
>> and if (ent->driver_data != pbn_default) the pci serial port got
>> registered
>> and initialized *even* if it's *not* of class SERIAL or MODEM.
>
> Ah, okay, it explains indeed.
> Though PCI devices with wrong class should have their own quirks for my
> p.o.v.
>
>>> (Of course, I agree this is regression and needs to be fixed ASAP)
>>
>> I don't know if it's easy to fix without reverting your patch.
>
> As I explained earlier it's about pci_enable_device() called twice for
> the same device which basically calls pcibios_enable_irq() twice which
> might be a problem on some platforms. (At least I have such use case).
> Perhaps it's possible to workaround the issue on those platforms, though
> I didn't come up with the better solution that time.
>
>> Thanks for the offer to accept this patch, but maybe we are able
>> to come up with another patch which simply hides those unsupported
>> devices (serial port and ATI graphics card device on the Diva card).
>> I posted a proposed patch here:
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg08187.html
>
> Reading briefly that one I guess it's even better (now I realized you
> even do not have connectors of those devices outside).
It's now fixed for parisc by new PCI quirks which
disable the parisc serial AUX port:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=bcf3f1752a622f1372d3252d0fea8855d89812e7
Thanks,
Helge
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