Re: [PATCH v1 0/3] serial:8250:Add driver support for MCHP PCI1XXXX UART module

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Oct 05 2021 - 05:48:28 EST


On Tue, Oct 5, 2021 at 11:49 AM LakshmiPraveen Kopparthi
<LakshmiPraveen.Kopparthi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-09-29 at 19:48 +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

...

> > Please, do not add this to 8250_pci.c. Use separate quirk driver as
> > it's done
> > in plenty of examples:
> >
> > 8250_lpss.c, 8250_mid.c, 8250_exar.c, ...
>
> Thanks for pointing the examples. I have looked into these examples and
> the required functionality can be achieved with a separate driver. But
> I would like to know the reason for not adding this to 8250_pci.c.

Maintainability. And we may check, btw, the LOC difference when you
will be ready with a separate driver.
In some cases it would even be a good win.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko