From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965600AbaCUNXe (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:23:34 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:45118 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965502AbaCUNXb convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:23:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 13:22:37 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Heikki Krogerus 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tty: serial: sc16is7xx Message-ID: <20140321132237.7aebefcf@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20140321082609.GA3801@xps8300> References: <1395324333-21221-1-git-send-email-jon@ringle.org> <20140321082609.GA3801@xps8300> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:26:09 +0200 Heikki Krogerus wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 10:05:33AM -0400, jon@ringle.org wrote: > > From: Jon Ringle > > > > 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