Re: [PATCH 2.6] Altix - add ioc3 serial driver support

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sun Jun 26 2005 - 13:47:17 EST


On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 03:24:05PM -0500, Pat Gefre wrote:
>
> I have a patch : ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/sn2/sn2-update/042-ioc3-support
>
> This driver adds support for a 2 port PCI IOC3 serial card on Altix boxes.

We already have an ioc3 driver, and despite beeing in drivers/net/ it
also registers the uarts. If the very simple serial support in there
is not enough for you please improve it instead of adding a new separate
driver. That improvement could involve a split similar to what Brent
did for ioc4 recently.

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