Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:00:32 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> driver tries to handle everything from the original 16450 all the way up > to serial multi-port cards that happen to just be multiple 16550's with > some tweaks. As a result, the driver is quite complex and huge and is a > mess of #ifdef CONFIG_xxx.
There are two or three cards that are well weird - but trying to maintain a seperate driver for that would be a real nightmare. Possibly the access functions need more abstraction but its pretty well done as is
> to handle the low-level hardware AND it knows how to handle the > higher-level issues. And I don't think it would be bad to split it up some > more.
generic_serial.c - mission already in progress for some cards.
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