> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of 旭 罗 > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 3:32 PM > To: Linu PPC Mail list > Cc: Wood Scott > Subject: A question about the 8250/16550 Driver > > Hello: > I have founded that the serial can't be initialized as > the bootting process. My platform is MPC8313 and my kernel > version is linux-2.6.23.9. I look though the source code and > find that the MPC8313 driver is compatible with 8250/16550. > The driver is in the \drivers\serial\8250.c > > In the function serial8250_isa_init_ports we should use the > structer old_serial_port but i can't find the definition for > this struct. I can only find the following senrense in the > head of this file
If you look into the function carefully enough, you can find that old_serial_port is optional and can be empty. It seems to be some leftover to provide backward compatibility when the port structure changed. - Leo _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
