The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
issue.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Why: Not reliable by design - can fail when most needed.
Alternatives exist
Who: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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+What: au1x00_uart driver
+When: January 2006
+Why: The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
+ between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
+ brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
+ issue.
+Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>