Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] serial: 8250: Report which option to enable for blacklisted PCI devices

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Sat, 26 Feb 2022, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Feb 2022, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 
> > We don't do this for any other driver subsystem, so why is it really
> > needed?  What is so special about this driver that distros can't
> > just enable all of the drivers and all is good?  What is keeping those
> > drivers fromb eing enabled?
> 
>  My justification is we have a supposedly generic PCI 8250 UART driver, 
> except it explicitly and silently refuses to handle a handful of devices 
> chosen by their PCI IDs based on that they may have extra features, even 
> though they are otherwise fully compatible with a generic 8250.

 Actually as it happens we do have a precedent too, as here's what I have 
just spotted on my laptop by chance when hibernating:

psmouse serio1: synaptics: The touchpad can support a better bus than the too old PS/2 protocol. Make sure MOUSE_PS2_SYNAPTICS_SMBUS and RMI4_SMB are enabled to get a better touchpad experience.

(with a distribution kernel, so clearly whoever packaged that has not 
enabled what might be needed).  Someone else wanted to be helpful too as 
it seems.

  Maciej