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    [PATCH] Serial driver stuff · 33c0d1b0
    Russell King authored
    The serial layer is restructured to allow less code duplication (and
    hence bug duplication) across various serial drivers.  Since ARM adds
    six extra serial drivers, maintaining six copies of serial.c was not
    my idea of fun.
    
    Therefore, we've ended up with a core serial driver, which knows about
    the interactions with the tty layer, and low-level hardware drivers,
    which know all about the hardware.  The interface between the two is
    described in "Documentation/serial/driver".
    
    This patch completely removes the old serial.c driver and its associated
    configuration options, as you requested at KS2002.  We keep a certain
    amount of configuration compatibility with the per-architecture serial.h
    file for the moment; this *will* be killed in the next round of patches.
    The biggest user of this is x86, and since I don't have an x86 box to
    test this stuff on, I think the changes are best kept separate.
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