Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:21:37 +0100 (CET) | From | Guennadi Liakhovetski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver |
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:53:15 -0500, Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> wrote: > > This is a set of three patches to allow adding another driver on top of > > the current serial driver without too much change to the serial code. > > This is more for comments right now, it is probably not ready for real > > use yet.
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> Has anything ever come of this? I would be very much interested in it. > It might make it possible to extend the Siemens Gigaset drivers > (drivers/isdn/gigaset) to the RS232 attached M101 DECT adapter. > There is a working driver out of tree which accesses the serial port > hardware directly (i8250 only), but that kind of thing doesn't seem > fit for inclusion in the kernel.
...FWIW I would also gladly remove arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/ls_uart.c in favour of a standard interface to drivers/serial.
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