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 <[email protected]>
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Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd
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