[PATCH 0/2] serial: 8250: Correct basic issues with the PCI blacklist

From: Maciej W. Rozycki
Date: Sat Feb 12 2022 - 03:41:36 EST


Hi,

In the course of investigating whether support code for OxSemi PCIe UARTs
could be factored out from the common 8250 PCI UART driver, which has been
previously requested by Andy (cc-ed), I have noticed that the Kconfig help
text for several device-specific UART drivers previously factored out is
incorrect in that it claims that those dedicated drivers are required for
extra features of the respective devices, while actually the blacklist
entries within the common driver make them require those dedicated drivers
even for standard features, as the common driver now refuses to handle
them.

Also it may be unclear for the user from a specific PCI device ID of an
affected PCI UART device which dedicated driver has to be configured in to
handle it, so make the blacklist entries include that information to be
printed if a device is encountered that cannot be handled because its
dedicated driver has been excluded from configuration while the common
driver refuses to handle it.

See the respective change descriptions for further details. Please
apply.

Maciej