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* Bitrotting serial drivers
@ 2005-03-19 17:21 Russell King
  2005-03-19 22:13 ` Andrew Morton
  2005-03-24 10:14 ` [PATCH] " Hirokazu Takata
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Russell King @ 2005-03-19 17:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: takata, akpm, Linux Kernel List

Hi,

m32r_sio
--------

Maintainer: Hirokazu Takata

Please clean up the m32r_sio driver, removing whatever bits of code
aren't absolutely necessary.

Specifically, I'd like to see the following addressed:

- the usage of SERIAL_IO_HUB6
  (this driver doesn't support hub6 cards)
- SERIAL_IO_* should be UPIO_*
- __register_m32r_sio, register_m32r_sio, unregister_m32r_sio,
  m32r_sio_get_irq_map
  (this driver doesn't support PCMCIA cards, all of which are based on
   8250-compatible devices.)
- early_serial_setup
  (should we really have the function name duplicated across different
   hardware drivers?)

au1x00_uart
-----------

Maintainer: unknown (akpm - any ideas?)

This is a complete clone of 8250.c, which includes all the 8250-specific
structure names.

Specifically, I'd like to see the following addressed:

- Please clean this up to use au1x00-specific names.
- this driver is lagging behind with fixes that the other drivers are
  getting.  Is au1x00_uart actually maintained?
- the usage of UPIO_HUB6
  (this driver doesn't support hub6 cards)
- __register_serial, register_serial, unregister_serial
  (this driver doesn't support PCMCIA cards, all of which are based on
   8250-compatible devices.)
- early_serial_setup
  (should we really have the function name duplicated across different
   hardware drivers?)

The main reason is I wish to kill off uart_register_port and
uart_unregister_port, but these drivers are using it.

Thanks.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

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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
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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