From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261546AbVFZSqE (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:46:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261553AbVFZSqD (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:46:03 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:44165 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261546AbVFZSqA (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jun 2005 14:46:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 19:45:57 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pat Gefre Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix - add ioc3 serial driver support Message-ID: <20050626184557.GA21428@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Pat Gefre , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200506222024.j5MKO5nD023262@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200506222024.j5MKO5nD023262@fsgi900.americas.sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:24:05PM -0500, Pat Gefre wrote: > > I have a patch : ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/042-ioc3-support > > This driver adds support for a 2 port PCI IOC3 serial card on Altix boxes. We already have an ioc3 driver, and despite beeing in drivers/net/ it also registers the uarts. If the very simple serial support in there is not enough for you please improve it instead of adding a new separate driver. That improvement could involve a split similar to what Brent did for ioc4 recently.