>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>> So you think it's a good thing we have 5 serial drivers rather than
>> one, and it'd be a good thing to split up the one we have into
>> several drivers again ?
Alan> We have architecture specific drivers. We have nice ones in
Alan> places too. They work very well when the hardware in question
Alan> requires a common and complex set of interactions to make it
Alan> work
Alan> Things like the Z85x30 chips, the 16x50 UART etc.
At least for some of these drivers, they could be merged in a nice
way. Some of them were not originally written as individual drivers
because there was a real need for it (I can claim this because I made
this mistake myself in the past).
Jes
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