Adding new driver - looking for suggestions

Chris Doré
2007-07-09T17:59:37Z

Hi all,

We would like to add support for our (Connect Tech) multi-port serial
adapters to the kernel. Currently there is some limited support for some of
our cards already in 8250_pci, however we have some specific functionality
on our cards that we would like to add. We already have a patch for 8250
(and friends) to add the new functionality, however I'm starting to think
that it may be better to create a separate driver, based on 8250/8250_pci,
for our specific boards/needs only.

I'm looking for any suggestions on what we should possibly do.

A current patch can be found here:
ftp://ftp.connecttech.com/pub/misc/bhbltnptm-2.6.21.patch

Thanks, Chris