Re: New serial card development

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On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:31:41AM -0500, Matt Schulte wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Matt Schulte
> <matts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:21 PM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Alan's advice to get your card working as a basic serial card is very
> >> good one.  Get basic functionality working, and then you can add the
> >> support for the extra bits later....
> >
> > I can see the logic in getting it working as a basic serial card
> > first.  I think at minimum I would still need to implement the extra
> > divisor calculations to get accurate bit rates.
> >
> > So when it works as a basic serial card, I assume you would want me to
> > use the default PCI IDs to keep it more generic.  Then would I add my
> > own PCI IDs and refer them back to the generic port?
> >
> 
> As more of a procedural question, when I go to make the patch(es) to
> submit which, kernel repo do I start with?  Do I start with Greg KH's
> tty repo and then generate the patches and submit them here?

That would be a great place to work off of, use the tty-next branch
please.

thanks,

greg k-h
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