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From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:42:27 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <423E0A63.7050802@embeddedalley.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050320232438.B31657@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:
> 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.

Go for it. I'll test the driver afterwards and think about getting it into the 
8250 again.

Thanks,

Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-20 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20050319172101.C23907@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
     [not found] ` <20050319141351.74f6b2a5.akpm@osdl.org>
2005-03-20 22:40   ` Bitrotting serial drivers Ralf Baechle
2005-03-20 22:51     ` Pete Popov
2005-03-20 23:24       ` Russell King
2005-03-20 23:42         ` Pete Popov [this message]
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
2005-03-21 21:10 Joseph Chiu
2005-03-21 21:10 ` Joseph Chiu

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