Re: [PATCH] Re: Move of input drivers, some word needed from you

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Aug 21 2000 - 15:43:47 EST


> > that often in the end, and the pain from trying to share the code is
> > usually much MUCH bigger than the pain from just occasionally stealing
> > code from the other guy.
>
> So you think it's a good thing we have 5 serial drivers rather than one, and
> it'd be a good thing to split up the one we have into several drivers again ?

We have architecture specific drivers. We have nice ones in places too. They
work very well when the hardware in question requires a common and complex
set of interactions to make it work

Things like the Z85x30 chips, the 16x50 UART etc.

Alan

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