On 5/6/07, Grant Likely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/6/07, David H. Lynch Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The basic fundimental question is why is there an 8250 specific > > structure, > > when there is a perfectly good generic structure that already exists ? > > Actually it seems to be even more complex than that because I think > > there is actually an > > old_serial structure that is also used in places. > > I ask the opposite question; why try to make the 8250 structure > generic when there is already a generic structure that does exactly > what you want one level up? > > I *do* think that 8250 should be changed; but not in the way you're > describing.
Although this point is actually moot because platform_bus pretty much goes away when we move to arch/powerpc. We'll be using of_platform_devices instead (which map onto nodes in the device tree). Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc. P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-embedded mailing list [email protected] https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
