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

[Alan C. <al...@lx...>]

> driver tries to handle everything from the original 16450 all the way up
> to serial multi-port cards that happen to just be multiple 16550's with
> some tweaks. As a result, the driver is quite complex and huge and is a
> mess of #ifdef CONFIG_xxx.

There are two or three cards that are well weird - but trying to maintain
a seperate driver for that would be a real nightmare. Possibly the access
functions need more abstraction but its pretty well done as is

> to handle the low-level hardware AND it knows how to handle the
> higher-level issues. And I don't think it would be bad to split it up some
> more.

generic_serial.c - mission already in progress for some cards.