Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial: make bugs field not specific to 8250 type uarts.

[Paul Gortmaker]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Make the bugs field part of the globally visible struct
>> uart_port and remove the 8250 specific one.
>
> Except all the bits in it are 8250 specific things or names that are
> meaningless in generic form - no. I also don't want to encourage flags
> and bug bits. We already have too many and its making the code a mess.
> So right now we want less not more.

The bits in "bugs" are only passed through -- the idea is that there is
no "interpretation" of them by any generic layer -- only that they prop
from the arch down to the driver which knows what they mean.

I can understand the "want less not more" mentality -- I was thinking
the same thing when I was looking at the replication of fields between
uart_port and uart_8250_port, and toying with the idea of helping clean
that up....  (separate topic, to be sure.)

If you have an idea in mind how arch/platform code should cleanly
pass data about known uart bugs to the uart driver, then let me know
what you have in mind.  I've no real attachment to what I proposed
here -- it just happened to be the solution I thought would be the least
offensive.  If there is a better idea floating around, I'll go ahead and
try to implement it.

Thanks,
Paul.

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