Re: AT91 serial driver

[Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn dot ch>]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:31:48PM +0100, Thomas Koeller wrote:
> Andrew, Laurent, ?yvind,
> 
> how are we going to get this resolved? We now have
> three patches competing for approval (although I
> think that ?yvind's patch is rather similar to
> Laurent's). Since Laurent and I both agree that
> merging the two different approaches into one driver
> is impractical, we are left with a choice of either
> deciding in favor of one patch and reject the other,
> or to include two separate driver packages into the
> repository.
> 
> Do we need more input to make a decision? In this case
> I'd suggest to post to ecos-devel to draw more
> attention at this topic. To me the main question seems
> to be whether it is more important to reduce system load
> or to preserve the semantics of driver operations to
> keep them consistent across different platforms. As this
> is a very basic question, some developers might want to
> comment on it.

My plan was to wait until you guys came to some sort of consensus as
what to do :-)

It seems to me we are heading towards two drivers and so two
packages. Each package should be clearly documented as to what the
advantage and disadvantages are over the other so it clear to
developers when they need to choose which to use.

Its then a question of which one is made the default driver. I think
Nick and the other maintainers should give there opinion. They know
the eCos philosophy better than i do.

    Andrew