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From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:15:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve_Hsj9YbV3bQ16qRQrVRo+HE2RJukuH=Mpq5AVLzhaDw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151222100859.GA24622@sudip-pc>

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Sudip Mukherjee
<sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:58:17AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

>> > The only downside is
>> > that the module gets loaded even if the device is not there.
>>
>> How is that?
>
> Alan explained that in https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/20/103
>
> Quoting from his mail "you reference the methods in it so it will
> always be dragged in".
>
> And I wanted to verify that so I tested today morning after removing the
> card from my local system and after booting I saw having 8250_gpi loaded.

Ah, it is in case "exar as a library".

In case "exar as a separate driver" other way around: it will drag
methods from 8250_pci if any.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-22 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-20 13:24 [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-20 14:18 ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-20 14:47   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-20 15:05     ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-20 16:41     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-12-20 17:11       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-20 17:28         ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-12-20 16:43 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-12-20 17:28   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-20 17:42     ` One Thousand Gnomes
2015-12-21 15:19       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-21 18:28         ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-22  4:27           ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-22  9:58             ` Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-22 10:08               ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-22 10:15                 ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]
2015-12-22 10:37                   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-12-20 17:46     ` Andy Shevchenko

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