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Message-ID: <CAHp75Ve_Hsj9YbV3bQ16qRQrVRo+HE2RJukuH=Mpq5AVLzhaDw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 12:15:18 +0200 From: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-serial@...r.kernel.org" <linux-serial@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] serial: 8250: add gpio support to exar On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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