Re: Bitrotting serial drivers

[Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>]

Russell King wrote:
> 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.
Go for it. I'll test the driver afterwards and think about getting it into the 
8250 again.
Thanks,

Pete