8250: Serial driver changes to support future Cavium OCTEON serial patches.
authorDavid Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:49:47 +0000 (13:49 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:19:43 +0000 (10:19 -0800)
commit7d6a07d123b62bf4fa71867420c23da3ca36c995
treeccb554b8bf86b9cf1b4f6bcd88745e0c5cb1793e
parentb430428a188e8a434325e251d0704af4b88b4711
8250: Serial driver changes to support future Cavium OCTEON serial patches.

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.

Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomaso Paoletti <tpaoletti@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/serial/8250.c
include/linux/serial_8250.h
include/linux/serial_core.h