On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 10:17:49PM +0200, Kars de Jong wrote: > Yes, you are right. I am working on rewriting the driver a bit to use a > platform device for the APCI driver, I'll take your bug report into > account as well.
Thanks. > On a related note: can I use the "serial8250" platform driver also for > non-ISA devices (like my APCI platform device)? The comments in > drivers/serial/8250.c suggest it's for ISA devices only, but I don't see > a particular reason for not using it for my APCI devices. The legacy platform device (serial8250_isa_devs) is for the old legacy ISA tables, found in include/asm-*/serial.h. Other serial8250 platform devices can be used to register other devices - preferably groups of platform specific serial ports. However, if you're talking about registering a set of devices found on a different bus type (eg, PCI) then look at how 8250_pci handles that. I'd prefer bus-specific device registration to be done in a similar way to 8250_pci rather than creating extra platform devices. I hope that's clear. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
