Re: [CFT:PATCH] Removing possible wrong asm/serial.h inclusions

[Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>]

On Mon, 2006-08-28 at 09:52 +0100, Russell King wrote:
> asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture
> specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver.  It may also define BASE_BAUD,
> but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_.
> 
> Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this
> header file.  In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which
> removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file.
> 
> MIPS and PPC has rather a lot of stuff in asm/serial.h, some of it looks
> related to non-8250 ports.  Hence, it's not trivial to conclude that
> these includes are indeed unnecessary, so can mips and ppc people please
> test this patch carefully.
...
> diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/synclink_cs.c
> diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink.c b/drivers/char/synclink.c

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>

-- 
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd

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