Re: Machin dependent serial port patches

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-05-20 at 01:56, J.C. Wren wrote:
> 	One of the things I noticed in the port of 2.5.69 to the 386EX embedded 
> system is that serial.h appears to not be a mach-xxx positionable file.  The 
> 386EX board uses standard 8250 type serial ports, but at 3.6864Mhz instad of 
> 1.8432Mhz.  There appears to be no way to build a patch set without modifying 
> include/i386/serial.h.  Would this not be better places in mach-defaults?  
> I'm trying very hard to modify as few files as possible when building these 
> patch sets.

Making asm-i386/serial.h include a mach- file sounds the right thing to
do. mach- for x86 is pretty new so a lot of stuff that maybe should be
in it, hasnt migrated yet.

The counter argument however is that you should be able to use setserial
to adjust the baud base so you dont need to change anything 8)