[PATCH RFC] ARM: at91: remove at91_register_uart_fns and headers

Andrew Victor avictor.za at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 17:55:22 EDT 2012


hi,

> Yeah, as far as I know, nobody ever used this functionality on AVR32.
> In fact, I can't even think of a reason to use it.
>
> But I seem to recall submitting a patch to remove this functionality a
> long time ago, and it was struck down. I don't remember the reason,
> but there's a chance it might still be valid.

Some of the SAN People / Multenet AT91RM9200 boards needed it....
We needed to use GPIO pins for some of the modem-control signals -
couldn't use the standard pins since the alternate pin function was
being used.


Regards,
 Andrew Victor



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