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From: "Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>
To: "Omar" <omar@natasha.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: serial driver maintaner
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 09:23:48 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <006901c24aa8$506124a0$294b82ce@connecttech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 001f01c24a31$d4956a50$493e1f7e@IRV429

From: "Omar" <omar@natasha.org>
> I've been trying to find out information on the Linux serial driver.  The
> maintainer hasn't updated his web site in a long time, does anyone know if
> he's still maintaining it ??

Ted doesn't seem to be maintaining it anymore. If you look in the
linux-kernel archive you'll find that Russell King is doing a rewrite
for 2.5/6 anyway.

> I am asking because I have a uart that isn't directly supported in the
> driver and I may need to add support for it, but I don't want to modify
the
> serial driver unless it can be included in the main distribution channel.

Update the driver, make a patch and send it to the list. If it's good
likely it will be included.

You may want to check out linux-serial also.

..Stu



      reply	other threads:[~2002-08-23 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-22 22:28 Performance of 2.4.17-based Kernel vs 2.5.26-based Kernel Under Database Workload Peter Wong
2002-08-22 23:15 ` serial driver maintaner Omar
2002-08-23 13:23   ` Stuart MacDonald [this message]

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