Re: [PATCH v3 09/11] serial: 8250_lpss: move Quark code from PCI driver
From: Bryan O'Donoghue <pure.logic@nexus-software.ie>
Date: 2016-05-04 09:51:25
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On Wed, 2016-05-04 at 12:42 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:31 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
Andy, If you are going to start removing working PCI devices from the PCI config table in favour of a shim in SERIAL_8250_LPSS then the very minimum should be some sort of dependency link between SERIAL_8250_LPSS and CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI in kconfig. A user could reasonably read the QRK datasheet - switch on CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI and then wonder why no console output happened on boot. S/he shouldn't have to know that devices were moved from the PCI driver to an LPSS shim driver or that the 8250_lpss driver now needs to be selected instead of the intuitively correct 8250_pci driver.That is taken care of since default is set to SERIAL_8250 (you even don't need to have PCI driver enabled!). Doesn't work for you?
The default may be set to SERIAL_8250 but, without the QRK specific entry in 8250_pci.c you won't get console output. So if you are going to remove the QRK entry from 8250_pci.c and stuff it into 8250_lpss.c then 8250_lpss needs to be selected by CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI. Otherwise the person doing the config needs to know that stuff was moved from one file to another - even though it's a PCI device (not an LPSS/ACPI enumerated device) - which seems like an unreasonable level of knowledge to assume on the part of the user.