Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 10:21:44 +0000 | From | Russell King - ARM Linux <> | Subject | Re: what serial driver restructure is planned? |
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:32:11AM -0800, Ed Vance wrote: > > > o Beta Serial driver restructure (Russell King) > > Regarding the above line from the 2.5 STATUS report, what is the nature of > the planned restructuring? I have a CompactPCI hot swap serial mux card > that I need to support with hot swap functionality on Linux. Has anybody > already worked on issues like locking port names to physical slots, etc.? > Any basic advice?
You can checkout a copy of the code - see www.arm.linux.org.uk/cvs
It basically started out by pulling 65K worth of the duplicated code out of various serial drivers. Its currently moving towards allowing the input layer to talk to serial devices (needed for things like iPAQ keyboards and IrDA-based keyboards), as well as allowing things like USB serial devices to use the core code. Some people would also like to see a "serial major" where all serial devices live. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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