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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: jon@ringle.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, jslaby@suse.cz,
	shc_work@mail.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	Jon Ringle <jringle@gridpoint.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: sc16is7xx
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:22:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140321132237.7aebefcf@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140321082609.GA3801@xps8300>

On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:26:09 +0200
Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:05:33AM -0400, jon@ringle.org wrote:
> > From: Jon Ringle <jringle@gridpoint.com>
> > 
> > The SC16IS7xx is a slave I2C-bus/SPI interface to a single-channel
> > high performance UART. The SC16IS7xx’s internal register set is
> > backward-compatible with the widely used and widely popular 16C450.
> 
> So couldn't this be just a probe driver for 8250?

That was my first thought but if you look at 8250 and its locking
assumptions it is a very poor fit. Better for now it is separate I think.

Alan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-21 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-20 14:05 [PATCH v2] tty: serial: sc16is7xx jon
2014-03-21  8:26 ` Heikki Krogerus
2014-03-21 12:42   ` Jon Ringle
2014-03-21 13:22   ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]

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