Greg Ungerer
Fri, 02 May 2008 08:38:03 -0700
Hi Matt, Matt Waddel wrote:
Greg Ungerer wrote:Sebastian Siewior wrote:* Greg Ungerer | 2008-04-29 10:20:35 [+1000]:The mcfserial.c driver is obsolete, and I plan on removing it>from the kernel soon. The mcf.c driver is now the appropriateone to use. It uese the modern style serial driver API, and properly support platform devices.When would that be? I haven't look into mcf.c yet :)I haven't decided a definite date yet. I have been gently pushing people to use the newer mcf driver for a couple of years now.Uuh. That's is some time :)The problem with this is that people are working happily and don't want to change. So I may just bite the bullet and remove mcfserial.c and force people to switch :-)You could tell them all that stuff does not work with the old one. I could help you and post a patch against feature-removal-schedule.txt for .27 and a removal patch in .27 :)mcf is a much cleaner driver. I don't want to maintain the crufty old mcfserial.c code any longer :-)Sure. We can do a .26 if you prefer :)I am actually leaning towards doing it now for this merge window. The pain people feel will be no different, I doubt anyone who this affects will actually take any notice of what is in feature-removal-schedule.txt anyway :-) So if anyone out there objects, speak now!You may have already answered this, but do you have an opinion/suggestion/tip on a good starting point for porting older platforms to this driver?
For most boards I expect you don't need to do anything more than disable the old driver and config enable the new one. I would be very interested to here of any problems. Regards Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg Ungerer -- Chief Software Dude EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SnapGear -- a Secure Computing Company PHONE: +61 7 3435 2888 825 Stanley St, FAX: +61 7 3891 3630 Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia WEB: http://www.SnapGear.com _______________________________________________ uClinux-dev mailing list uClinux-dev@uclinux.org http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/listinfo/uclinux-dev This message was resent by uclinux-dev@uclinux.org To unsubscribe see: http://mailman.uclinux.org/mailman/options/uclinux-dev