linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] tty: serial: 8250: add MOXA Smartio MUE boards support

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Message-ID: <CAJs94EaztHrH1WD7RurYhzjavj=21_wSTwJzm+fF8Hs22YZ6ew@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:38:02 +0300
From:   "Matwey V. Kornilov" <matwey.kornilov@...il.com>
To:     Mathieu OTHACEHE <m.othacehe@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        anton.wuerfel@....de, phillip.raffeck@....de,
        Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
        Peter H <hpeter@...il.com>,
        Soeren Grunewald <soeren.grunewald@...y.de>,
        Wang YanQing <udknight@...il.com>,
        Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] tty: serial: 8250: add MOXA Smartio MUE boards support

Hi,

I am currently reading misc stuff in serial/8250/.
What is the reason why 8250_moxa ever exists? I mean, it seems that
8250_pci module does the same as 8250_moxa does.

2016-03-19 12:07 GMT+03:00 Mathieu OTHACEHE <m.othacehe@...il.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about late reply.
>
> No I haven't planned to do it soon. Your board is supported by mxser driver (drivers/tty/mxser.c).
> I think it would be nice to move everything from mxser.c to 8250_moxa.c.
>
> The problem is mxser supports ISA and PCI boards and I don't have the hardware to test it.
>
> Mathieu



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