Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:38:57 +0200 | From | Haavard Skinnemoen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 8/8] atmel_serial: Kill at91_register_uart_fns |
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On 28 Sep 2006 11:21:55 +0200 Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> wrote:
> hi Haavard, > > > at91_register_uart_fns has no users as far as I can see. Let's get > > rid of it. > > No. It is being used. > > This interface is used to register board-specific functions that can > be use to control the serial port modem-control lines. > > For example, the AT91RM9200 only provides the full modem-control > signals on USART1. If you need the modem-control signals for any of > the other ports you need to drive some of the GPIO pins manually. So > you need this hook back into your board-specific file to do that.
Ok, I sort of suspected that. But I can't see any users in the kernel tree, so perhaps we should leave the name of the function alone too? (i.e. just drop the patch)
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