From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:212.18.232.186]:29201 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:24:48 +0000 Received: from flint.arm.linux.org.uk ([2002:d412:e8ba:1:201:2ff:fe14:8fad]) by caramon.arm.linux.org.uk with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.41) id 1DD9mi-0006x8-3O; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:24:40 +0000 Received: from rmk by flint.arm.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.41) id 1DD9mh-0000OC-0W; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:24:39 +0000 Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:24:38 +0000 From: Russell King To: Pete Popov Cc: Ralf Baechle , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers Message-ID: <20050320232438.B31657@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Pete Popov , Ralf Baechle , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org References: <20050319172101.C23907@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050319141351.74f6b2a5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050320224028.GB6727@linux-mips.org> <423DFE7C.7040406@embeddedalley.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <423DFE7C.7040406@embeddedalley.com>; from ppopov@embeddedalley.com on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:51:40PM -0800 Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7477 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:51:40PM -0800, Pete Popov wrote: > >>>- __register_serial, register_serial, unregister_serial > >>> (this driver doesn't support PCMCIA cards, all of which are based on > >>> 8250-compatible devices.) > > I tried a couple of times to cleanly add support to the 8250 for the Au1x > serial. The uart is just different enough to make that hard, though I admit I > never spent too much time on it. Sounds like it's time to revisit it again. I would prefer to have a patch to remove (or ack to do so myself) the above three mentioned functions so I can avoid breaking your driver, rather than a large update to it. Thanks. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core