> > My particular uart resports (status1 == 6 && status2 == 6). If that is > > good enough I can add another porttype and add the correct register > > address as UART_EXAR_EFR in the header file. > > Try it and see. We can put it in -next for a while and then there will a > release cycle duriing which any unfortunate clashes wil get resolved. I will prepare and test a patch. > Alternatively if it's a device attached to a specific platform create it > as a platform device of some kind in the board specific code and pick > that up in the serial driver. > > > Another thought could be to write 0xFF (or some other value) to the > > correct EFR-register and read that byte to test if the register is > > present. The problem here is that I do not how the bus reacts to > > writting/reading invalid addresses. > > The trouble is an extra register may in fact be part of some other device > - it's generally not a great idea if there are other choices. Ok. It did seem like a dangerous thing to do. Thanks Alan -- Søren Holm -- 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
