Re: [PATCH v3] tty: serial: 8250: add MOXA Smartio MUE boards support

From: Matwey V. Kornilov
Date: Sat Jan 14 2017 - 13:38:33 EST


Hi,

I am currently reading misc stuff in serial/8250/.
What is the reason why 8250_moxa ever exists? I mean, it seems that
8250_pci module does the same as 8250_moxa does.

2016-03-19 12:07 GMT+03:00 Mathieu OTHACEHE <m.othacehe@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry about late reply.
>
> No I haven't planned to do it soon. Your board is supported by mxser driver (drivers/tty/mxser.c).
> I think it would be nice to move everything from mxser.c to 8250_moxa.c.
>
> The problem is mxser supports ISA and PCI boards and I don't have the hardware to test it.
>
> Mathieu



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