Re: Replace rocket.c 'tty' driver with 'serial' driver?

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On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 09:10:11PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> For the past few years I've been maintaining an out-of-tree rocket.c
> serial driver that replaces the existing rocket.c tty driver. It was
> loosely based on the rp2.c code.  It supports a number of newer PCI
> boards that the existing rocket.c driver does not, and it fixes a few
> problems with the old driver.
> 
> However, the new serial driver does not support ISA or PC-104 bus
> cards (which appear to be supported by the existing rocket.c tty
> driver).
> 
> Would there be any willingness to replace the old rocket.c tty driver
> with the new serial driver?

Sure, if it is simpler and works better with PCI devices, that would
make sense to do this.  Then we can drop the same PCI ids from the old
rocket driver to hopefully let us eventually drop that driver completly
some day.

So, submit away!

thanks,

greg k-h



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