Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] serial: 8250_pci: Always try MSI/MSI-X

[rwright]

On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 12:15:25PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 9:55 AM Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ...
> Thanks, but I still think that blacklisting is better. All drivers I
> have split (or participated in splitting) from 8250_pci have enabled
> MSI for the entire subset they serve for.
> ...
> Thanks. I also added Randy, who extended the list.

My own opinion is that a whitelist to enroll devices as they are tested
is the safer approach, for the reason that getting test coverage on many
of the older devices would be difficult.  For example, I see id's of HP
devices in the code that are probably 20 years old, and I doubt whether
there are operational examples inside HPE today.

That said, I can offer to test that a new patch to 8250_pci.c works on
the device I recently added.  Please cc me directly if that is helpful,
as I don't always read the mailing lists such as linux-serial promptly.

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Randy Wright - Hewlett Packard Enterprise - rwright@xxxxxxx