Re: Update to the serial driver
Matthew Wilcox (willy@odie.barnet.ac.uk)
Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:12:33 +0100 (BST)
> From: tytso@mit.edu
[...]
> * Make the serial driver much more architecture independent.
> Instead of validating the irq by checking against a hard-coded
> 16, it now checks against NR_IRQS. The check to see if irq 2
> should be changed to be irq 9 has been moved into a
> irq_cannonicalize function, to be defined in
> include/arch/irq.h. Finally, the i386 and alpha specific
> parts of the rs_table initialization have been moved to
> include/asm/serial.h. (This is what makes the patches look so
> big, but it's mostly rearranging existing code.) Russell
> King proposed these changes for the ARM port (although I
> didn't take his patches exactly as he proposed them.)
Please apply a search and replace cannonicalize -> canonicalise. There
are few things more annoying than misspelt functions.
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