Re: [PATCH] fix driver conflict issues

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 27 2019 - 05:37:42 EST


On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 06:06:22PM +0800, Morris Ku wrote:
> I am an engineer in the software team at SUNIX Inc.,
> maintain SUNIX Multi-I/O Board Device driver,we plan to submit drivers to
> the kernel,therefore,i want to modify file for resolve driver conflict issue.
> ---
> tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 163 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 162 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Hi,

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created. Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
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