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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 21:21:37 +0100 (CET) From: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@....de> To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver On Sun, 10 Dec 2006, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 11:53:15 -0500, Corey Minyard <cminyard@...sta.com> wrote: > > This is a set of three patches to allow adding another driver on top of > > the current serial driver without too much change to the serial code. > > This is more for comments right now, it is probably not ready for real > > use yet. [snip] > Has anything ever come of this? I would be very much interested in it. > It might make it possible to extend the Siemens Gigaset drivers > (drivers/isdn/gigaset) to the RS232 attached M101 DECT adapter. > There is a working driver out of tree which accesses the serial port > hardware directly (i8250 only), but that kind of thing doesn't seem > fit for inclusion in the kernel. ...FWIW I would also gladly remove arch/powerpc/platforms/embedded6xx/ls_uart.c in favour of a standard interface to drivers/serial. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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