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* Bitrotting serial drivers
@ 2005-03-19 17:21 Russell King
  2005-03-19 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
  2005-03-24 10:14 ` [PATCH] " Hirokazu Takata
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2005-03-19 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: takata, akpm, Linux Kernel List

Hi,

m32r_sio
--------

Maintainer: Hirokazu Takata

Please clean up the m32r_sio driver, removing whatever bits of code
aren't absolutely necessary.

Specifically, I'd like to see the following addressed:

- the usage of SERIAL_IO_HUB6
  (this driver doesn't support hub6 cards)
- SERIAL_IO_* should be UPIO_*
- __register_m32r_sio, register_m32r_sio, unregister_m32r_sio,
  m32r_sio_get_irq_map
  (this driver doesn't support PCMCIA cards, all of which are based on
   8250-compatible devices.)
- early_serial_setup
  (should we really have the function name duplicated across different
   hardware drivers?)

au1x00_uart
-----------

Maintainer: unknown (akpm - any ideas?)

This is a complete clone of 8250.c, which includes all the 8250-specific
structure names.

Specifically, I'd like to see the following addressed:

- Please clean this up to use au1x00-specific names.
- this driver is lagging behind with fixes that the other drivers are
  getting.  Is au1x00_uart actually maintained?
- the usage of UPIO_HUB6
  (this driver doesn't support hub6 cards)
- __register_serial, register_serial, unregister_serial
  (this driver doesn't support PCMCIA cards, all of which are based on
   8250-compatible devices.)
- early_serial_setup
  (should we really have the function name duplicated across different
   hardware drivers?)

The main reason is I wish to kill off uart_register_port and
uart_unregister_port, but these drivers are using it.

Thanks.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

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* RE: Bitrotting serial drivers
@ 2005-03-21 21:10 ` Joseph Chiu
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 23+ messages in thread
From: Joseph Chiu @ 2005-03-21 21:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ulrich Eckhardt, linux-mips

Hmmm, that's news to me!  I've been using console=ttyS0,115200  console=ttyS0,9600 and console= (no console) forever.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org
> [mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org]On Behalf Of Ulrich Eckhardt
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
> Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers
> 
> 
> On Sunday 20 March 2005 23:51, Pete Popov wrote:
> > It works and no one has complained about any bugs. 
> 
> I hereby do complain that it doesn't work. ;)
> 
> I'd give more details, but I'm neither at work nor did I 
> investigate the 
> situation properly. What I remember trying is to add 
> 'console=/dev/ttyS0' or 
> somesuch to the commandline, but couldn't get it to work 
> there. The funny 
> thing is that when I use the GDB support over serial line 
> (which seems to use 
> a primitive, stripped-down version of a serial driver) it 
> works, I can then 
> redirect boot messages via 'console=gdb'.
> 
> Uli
> 
> 

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end of thread, other threads:[~2005-03-30  8:56 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages (download: mbox.gz follow: Atom feed
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2005-03-19 17:21 Bitrotting serial drivers Russell King
2005-03-19 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-20 22:40   ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-20 22:51     ` Pete Popov
2005-03-20 23:24       ` Russell King
2005-03-20 23:42         ` Pete Popov
2005-03-21 20:51       ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-03-21 20:57         ` Pete Popov
2005-03-21 22:07           ` Ulrich Eckhardt
2005-03-22  7:28             ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-22  9:58       ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21  7:45     ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21  9:06       ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2005-03-21  9:19       ` Pete Popov
2005-03-21 12:12         ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-21 12:38           ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-24 10:14 ` [PATCH] " Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-24 12:17   ` Russell King
2005-03-25  9:07     ` Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-30  0:59     ` [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] m32r: m32r_sio driver update (was Re: [PATCH] Re: Bitrotting serial drivers) Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-30  8:56       ` Russell King
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2005-03-21 21:10 Bitrotting serial drivers Joseph Chiu
2005-03-21 21:10 ` Joseph Chiu

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