Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] serial:8250:Add driver support for MCHP PCI1XXXX UART module

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Wed Sep 29 2021 - 12:48:57 EST


On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 05:00:46PM +0530, LakshmiPraveen Kopparthi wrote:
> PCI1XXXX UART is a PCIe to UART module. It has 5 SKUs, each is
> differentiated by the device IDs in the PCIe config space. Each
> SKU supports a maximum of 4 UART ports(UART0,1,2,3) with fixed
> offests.Based on the sub device ID, the combinations of UART
> ports shall be enumerated.
>
> The UART port is compatible with the standard 16550A, but has some
> modifications.The modifications includes a change in the baud rate
> settings,auto control of RTS signal for RS485 feature and an
> increase of TX & RX FIFO size to 256 Bytes.Also, it has a capability
> to wake up the CPU.
>
> These patches adds the support to enumerate and exercise all the
> combinations of UART ports in all the SKUs.

> drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 384 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Please, do not add this to 8250_pci.c. Use separate quirk driver as it's done
in plenty of examples:

8250_lpss.c, 8250_mid.c, 8250_exar.c, ...

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko