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Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar

From Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar
Date 2015-12-22 11:20 +0100
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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.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko
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[PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 14:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 15:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 15:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 16:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-20 17:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 18:20 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-20 18:30 +0100
  Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-20 17:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 18:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-20 18:50 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2015-12-20 18:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 16:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-21 19:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 05:30 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 11:00 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 11:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 11:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> - 2015-12-22 11:40 +0100

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