From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Subject: Re: Uartlite driver & CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 09:47:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87ve1eg06x.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <4826FC28.4090701@seznam.cz> <1210545557.5798.267.camel@localhost> <4827E073.9020301@seznam.cz> <482C4C90.8060606@dlasys.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.187]:12462 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751763AbYEPHw2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2008 03:52:28 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so308081nfc.21 for ; Fri, 16 May 2008 00:52:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <482C4C90.8060606@dlasys.net> (David H. Lynch, Jr.'s message of "Thu\, 15 May 2008 10\:45\:36 -0400") Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: dhlii@dlasys.net Cc: monstr@seznam.cz, Grant Likely , John Williams , Josh Boyer , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Neuendorffer >>>>> "David" == David H Lynch writes: Hi, David> One of the key differences between my uartlite driver and David> Peter's is that like many other serial drivers I have a timer David> to support irqless use. Just like Peter has UartLite Like David> devices with 16bit datapaths, I have UartLites with no David> interrupts. Many others? I think not. ls -l *.c|wc -l ~/source/linux-2.6/drivers/serial 62 git grep -l request_irq `git grep -l init_timer`|wc -l 9 David> I have tried (unsuccessfully) several times to migrate my David> timer code into Peter's driver. This is probably the most David> fundimental remaining reason I can not use Peter's driver. unsuccessfully in what way? I afaik haven't seen any patches. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard