On July 10, 2007 5:35 PM, Frantisek Rysanek wrote: > > As far as patching the vanilla kernel is concerned: > You seem to suggest an addition of rather proprietary data (members) > to the neatly generic struct uart_port. I'd suggest adding something > like > > void* priv; // device-specific driver private data I agree, I'm not a fan of the current implementation. I'd like to massage what we have into something more acceptable. > to the generic struct uart_port of the vanilla kernel, which you > could then use to hook your own private data struct, regardless of > whether the rest of your driver lives in 8250_pci.c or in a stand- > alone module. This is the way it's done in a number of other generic > device structs (or maybe the more modern way is to use a nested > struct with "parent struct decoding"). Thanks for the ideas. Chris Doré - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
