On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:57:19PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > our upcoming system. I'm guessing that the difficulties with the driver as > > it's currently structured may have been the reason it was never pushed to > > mainline by the original author in 2007. > > There are not many difficulties I can see. You just add the identifiers > to the 8250_pci tables and a couple of small bits of code and everything > but the RS422/485 stuff just works. > > If you need the RS422 stuff then yes its a bit more work. Unfortunately we need the RS422 stuff - that's the reason for using the DSC-200/300 card. Thanks for the comments and feedback - I'll take another look at things in the light of the information. If the functionality we require requires a significant amount of new code to be written, I suspect that the work will be deemed too time consuming by those who call the shots. We'll see. Regards jonathan -- 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
