Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-07 Thread n0ano
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

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-08 Thread n0ano
I think this is pretty much what I'm in the middle of doing. I want to put the infrastructure in place so that we can handle an arbitrary PCI device but I will only put the actual code in to handle the PCI card that I have (the only one I can test). What I'm doing is creating a table that matches

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-09 Thread n0ano
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:57:30PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >... > Nice! Aside from base baud and configuration function, I assume we'd also > want to specify the I/O port? Yep, I/O port and base baud are the only two device specific items we need since we don't do interrupts. Doing a table

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-12 Thread n0ano
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:57:30PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 06:58:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think this is pretty much what I'm in the middle of doing. I want to > > put the infrastructure in place so that we can handle an arbitrary PCI > > device but I

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-13 Thread n0ano
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:05:37PM +0200, Vesa J??skel?inen wrote: > > Why not hide the legacy comports if they are not there and we can auto > detect that? I went back and forth on this. I finally decided that COM1 to COM4 are so firmly a part of the PC design I should leave them (note that if

Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

2008-11-14 Thread n0ano
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:05:37PM +0200, Vesa J??skel?inen wrote: > Hi Don, > > Thanks for the patch! > Here is a new patch incorporating your comments. (Still waiting on legal about the copyright assignment, I'm sure it'll happen - someday.) Signed-off-by: Donald D. Dugger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The ponderings of a newbie

2009-01-29 Thread n0ano
I'm old school: fetchmail: to get the mail. procmail: to separate lists into individula folders. mutt: to read the mail, it uses threaded mode by default. On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 11:43:57PM +0200, Vesa J??skel?inen wrote: > Jay Sullivan wrote: > > 1) Mailing lists: > > > > I'm wanting to avoid