Hi Matt,
Matt Waddel wrote:
Greg Ungerer wrote:
Sebastian Siewior wrote:
* Greg Ungerer | 2008-04-29 10:20:35 [+1000]:
The mcfserial.c driver is obsolete, and I plan on removing it
>from the kernel soon. The mcf.c driver is now the appropriate
one to use. It uese the modern style serial driver API, and
properly support platform devices.
When would that be? I haven't look into mcf.c yet :)
I haven't decided a definite date yet. I have been gently
pushing people to use the newer mcf driver for a couple of
years now.
Uuh. That's is some time :)
The problem with this is that people are working happily and
don't want to change. So I may just bite the bullet and remove
mcfserial.c and force people to switch :-)
You could tell them all that stuff does not work with the old one. I
could help you and post a patch against feature-removal-schedule.txt for
.27 and a removal patch in .27 :)
mcf is a much cleaner driver. I don't want to maintain the
crufty old mcfserial.c code any longer :-)
Sure. We can do a .26 if you prefer :)
I am actually leaning towards doing it now for this merge window.
The pain people feel will be no different, I doubt anyone who
this affects will actually take any notice of what is in
feature-removal-schedule.txt anyway :-)
So if anyone out there objects, speak now!
You may have already answered this, but do you have an
opinion/suggestion/tip on a good starting point for
porting older platforms to this driver?
For most boards I expect you don't need to do anything more
than disable the old driver and config enable the new one.
I would be very interested to here of any problems.
Regards
Greg
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