Re: [PATCH] parport: Add support for the WCH384 4S multi-IO card

[Sudip Mukherjee]

Hi Matt,

On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:35:23PM -0700, Matt Turner wrote:
> This Multi-IO card has one serial 16550-like serial connectors. Here's
> the lspci output, after this commit is applied:
> 
> 01:00.0 Serial controller [0700]: Device [1c00:3470] (rev 10) (prog-if 05 [16850])
>         Subsystem: Device [1c00:3470]
>         Flags: fast devsel, IRQ 16
>         I/O ports at e000 [size=256]
>         Memory at f0100000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32K]
>         I/O ports at e100 [size=4]
>         Expansion ROM at f7d00000 [disabled] [size=32K]
>         Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
>         Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/32 Maskable+ 64bit+
>         Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
>         Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
>         Kernel driver in use: parport_serial
> 
> This card was already added to the blacklist of 8250_pci.c in commit
> 72a3c0e4e662 ("tty: Add support for the WCH384 4S multi-IO card").
> 
> Cc: Sergej Pupykin <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> It looks like CH355_4S is similarly missing, but I don't have hardware
> to test.
> 
> This commit makes me wonder if I'm missing something -- how could
> anything have worked after commit 72a3c0e4e662 without support in
> parport_serial?
>

Is the patch still needed to be applied? After Andy's patch to tty tree,
the device (0x1c00, 0x3470) will be probed by 8250_pci.c.

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Regards
Sudip