Re: [PATCH] 2.6.10 Altix : ioc4 serial driver support

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:24:26PM -0600, Pat Gefre wrote:
> I have a serial driver for Altix I'd like to submit.

Why put it in arch/ia64/sn/io/sn2/driver/ioc4_serial.c ?!
drivers/serial/ioc4.c would be the right place for it.  You put the
Kconfig there -- that should be a clue.

It seems like you're directly dereferencing pointers to io memory instead
of calling readb and friends.  I know, this driver doesn't need to be
portable, but it helps any casual reader of this driver figure out what's
going on.  And you can get rid of the 'volatile' that way ;-)

Linux Device Drivers, Second edition says you shouldn't use SA_INTERRUPT
without good reason (http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch09.html#t3)

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