Re: [PATCH 20/26] 8250: Serial driver changes to support futureCavium OCTEON serial patches.

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:24:14 -0800
David Daney <ddaney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In order to use Cavium OCTEON specific serial i/o drivers, we first
> patch the 8250 driver to use replaceable I/O functions.  Compatible
> I/O functions are added for existing iotypeS.
> 
> An added benefit of this change is that it makes it easy to factor
> some of the existing special cases out to board/SOC specific support
> code.
> 
> The alternative is to load up 8250.c with a bunch of OCTEON specific
> iotype code and bug work-arounds.

Neither are pretty but this looks the better option I agree. Only niggle
is the use of "_fn" - Linux generally doesn't put types into variable
names.
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