On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 08:19 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 11:10:14AM -0400, Mark Hounschell wrote: > > >Also, any reason why these drivers aren't in the main kernel tree? If > > >they were, all of this work would have been done for you :) > > > > > > > Yes, I wish they were in the kernel. I've had to maintain them since > > the 2.6 days because Digi just won't do it and their cards do what > > we need quite well and are still current products. Ya, you can buy a > > brand new one but the latest kernel supported is 2.6. I think Digi > > at one point long ago may have tried the "in kernel" route but you > > probably know more about that than I do. > > > > Since 2.6, the maintenance on these hasn't been to bad, until udev > > came along. But I guess after 3.4 the tty layer is going through > > quite some changes that I have yet to understand. > > And there will be lots more changes happening to it in the future. Why > not submit the drivers now (after you get them working)? Probably not Mark's (or Compro's) code to submit. -- 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
