Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:52:21PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> address@hidden wrote:
> > Bad news, I heard back from the two people who wrote the PCI serial
> > code for Linux (Russell King & Ted Tso) and they both agree that,
> > no matter how the ambiguity got into the Linux source files, their
> > intent was that the code was GPL v2 only.
> > 
> > That being the case, we can't use the code and I don't want to try
> > and re-write it from scratch so we're back to having the user manually
> > specify the I/O port address but at least I can create a PCI ID table
> > to map the base baud.
> 
> Ok. Then I would suggest that only simple change is made at this time to
> support it. So we start from scratch on that implementation. Anyway...
> it can be improved later on.

Why not use PCI ID to support this particular card?  This way Donald doesn't
have to support all cards, but the base is laid out so more cards can be added
in the future.

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Robert Millan

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