From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
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 23:24:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050320232438.B31657@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423DFE7C.7040406@embeddedalley.com>; from ppopov@embeddedalley.com on Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 02:51:40PM -0800
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.
Thanks.
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-20 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-19 17:21 Bitrotting serial drivers Russell King
2005-03-19 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-20 22:40 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-03-20 22:51 ` Pete Popov
2005-03-20 23:24 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-03-20 23:42 ` Pete Popov
2005-03-22 9:58 ` Michael Stickel
2005-03-24 10:14 ` [PATCH] " Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-24 12:17 ` Russell King
2005-03-25 9:07 ` Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-30 0:59 ` [PATCH 2.6.12-rc1-mm3] m32r: m32r_sio driver update (was Re: [PATCH] Re: Bitrotting serial drivers) Hirokazu Takata
2005-03-30 8:56 ` Russell King
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