Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you | From | Jes Sorensen <> | Date | 22 Aug 2000 04:39:19 +0200 |
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> So you think it's a good thing we have 5 serial drivers rather than >> one, and it'd be a good thing to split up the one we have into >> several drivers again ?
Alan> We have architecture specific drivers. We have nice ones in Alan> places too. They work very well when the hardware in question Alan> requires a common and complex set of interactions to make it Alan> work
Alan> Things like the Z85x30 chips, the 16x50 UART etc.
At least for some of these drivers, they could be merged in a nice way. Some of them were not originally written as individual drivers because there was a real need for it (I can claim this because I made this mistake myself in the past).
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