From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:42:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp007.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com ([IPv6:::ffff:66.163.170.10]:27000 "HELO smtp007.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com") by linux-mips.org with SMTP id ; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:42:30 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.102?) (ppopov@embeddedalley.com@63.194.214.47 with plain) by smtp007.bizmail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Mar 2005 23:42:27 -0000 Message-ID: <423E0A63.7050802@embeddedalley.com> Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:42:27 -0800 From: Pete Popov Reply-To: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Organization: Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041020 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Russell King CC: Ralf Baechle , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers References: <20050319172101.C23907@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050319141351.74f6b2a5.akpm@osdl.org> <20050320224028.GB6727@linux-mips.org> <423DFE7C.7040406@embeddedalley.com> <20050320232438.B31657@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050320232438.B31657@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: 7478 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: ppopov@embeddedalley.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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