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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] staging: dgnc: Fix Kconfig help header and text
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On 10/1/18 12:49 PM, Lidza Louina wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 8:09 AM Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net
> <mailto:markh@compro.net>> wrote:
>
> On 9/28/18 3:59 PM, Lidza Louina wrote:
> > I haven't done work on this driver in a long time. I looked up the
> > devices, and they seem to already have an existing Linux driver:
> >
> https://www.digi.com/products/usb-and-serial-connectivity/serial-cards/digineo and
>
> > https://www.digi.com/support/productdetail?pid=1694
> >
> > I've contacted the company to see if the driver is still needed in
> > staging. I'll send an update once they get back to me.
> >
> > Lidza
> >
>
> Good luck with that. Digi obsoleted ALL their PCI serial cards several
> months ago. They would not even respond to requests from me to include
> their firmware for their PCI dgap cards into the kernel firmware
> package. The card for the dgnc driver is a pci-e card that may still be
> supported by them however. Also there does appear to be an already in
> kernel driver for these "PCI-e" cards too. It actually works as I
> have a
> couple of these cards. The module name is "jsm".
>
>
> 03:00.0 Serial controller: Digi International Device 00f0 (rev 02)
> (prog-if 02 [16550])
>          Subsystem: Digi International Device 00f0
>          Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
> ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
>          Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast
> >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
>          Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 29
>          Region 0: Memory at f7200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
> [size=4K]
>          Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
>                  Flags: PMEClk+ DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA
> PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold-)
>                  Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
>          Kernel driver in use: jsm
>          Kernel modules: jsm
>
>
> Regards
> Mark
>
>
> Thanks for the heads up Mark. I've totally neglected this driver and
> should have caught this earlier. I'm okay with removing it from staging.
> We can bring it back if they need it.
>

It may actually be my fault that Greg-KH added the dgnc driver to
staging. Shortly after Digi stopped supporting their PCI cards, I had
some contact with Greg-KH and sent him all the Digi GPL drivers that I
was using at the time for possible inclusion. Digi was no longer
maintaining them. I did not know at the time about the jsm driver
already being there.

The dgnc driver supports the following PCI cards:
#define PCI_DEVICE_CLASSIC_4_DID 0x0028
#define PCI_DEVICE_CLASSIC_8_DID 0x0029
#define PCI_DEVICE_CLASSIC_4_422_DID 0x00D0
#define PCI_DEVICE_CLASSIC_8_422_DID 0x00D1

The jsm driver supports all of these plus their newer PCI-e cards:
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CLASSIC_4 0x0028
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CLASSIC_8 0x0029
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CLASSIC_4_422 0x00D0
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_CLASSIC_8_422 0x00D1

#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NEO_4 0x00B0
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NEO_1_422 0x00CC
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NEO_1_422_485 0x00CD
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NEO_2_422_485 0x00CE
#define PCIE_DEVICE_ID_NEO_8 0x00F0
#define PCIE_DEVICE_ID_NEO_4 0x00F1
#define PCIE_DEVICE_ID_NEO_4RJ45 0x00F2
#define PCIE_DEVICE_ID_NEO_8RJ45 0x00F3

So I think it is safe to remove the dgnc driver from staging. I also
think the PCI-e versions defined above are actually still available from
Digi as current products.

Regards
Mark

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