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Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:42:27 -0800
From: Pete Popov <ppopov@embeddedalley.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bitrotting serial drivers
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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
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