On Wed, Nov 11, 2015 at 09:49:11PM +0000, Rob Groner wrote: > > > We all know you are busy. If you want I can try the cleanup and send > > > it to Rob for testing. > > > > Yes please, it should just require a change to the existing 8250 driver code for > > this platform, it should not be a stand-alone driver. > > > > thanks, > > > > greg k-h > > I'm a little confused by that, but I'm happily standing by, ready to > test the result, or any other way I can help. > > As long as our boards that use the Exar chip aren't sucked up by the > kernel 8250 driver, then mission accomplished! It should be sucked up by the 8250 driver, the driver they posted is just a fork of the existing driver with a few small, odd, modifications. the 8250 framework is _so_ flexible that I'm sure it can support this hardware as-is, the hardware just needs to be properly described to the driver. The last time I did this, it took 2 days of reading the driver and figuring it all out, and then only 16 new lines of code/tables added to the driver to support a new device that was a bit "odd" from a normal uart. I expect the same thing would be needed here, but maybe more lines of code :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
