On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 03:45:57PM +0800, Luke Yang wrote:
> On 3/20/06, Russell King <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:07:44PM +0800, Luke Yang wrote:
> > > Index: git/linux-2.6/drivers/serial/bfin_serial_5xx.c
> > > ===================================================================
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ linux-2.6/drivers/serial/bfin_serial_5xx.c
> >
> > Please convert this driver to use the serial_core infrastructure. Thanks.
> Thank you! This is a driver based on the 68328 serial driver. Do
> you mean every serial driver must follow the serial core framework? If
> so, we'll change it ASAP. For now, my previous blackfin architecture
> patch needs this driver to get compiled.
It is preferable since it massively reduces code duplication, and fixes
various minor issues found in the original serial driver.
As a result, it improves code maintainability since a fix to the semantics
of the serial layer will fix all drivers, instead of having to apply the
same fix to multiple serial drivers (which just doesn't happen.)
--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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