[Q] comedi 8255 based PCI boards

[Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh@linuxfoundation.org)]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:17:10PM -0500, H Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> There are a couple comedi drivers for 8255 based I/O boards. They
> are all virtually identical:
> 
> adl_pci7296.c	supports 3 ADLink board types
> cb_pcidio.c	supports 3 ComputerBoards (MeasurementComputing) board types
> ni_pcidio.c	supports 7 National Instruments board types
> 
> The ni_pcidio driver is a bit goofy since is also handles a couple
> dio boards that are not 8255 based. It also has the mite stuff
> which I still need to wrap my head around...
> 
> The support for these boards could all be merged into the
> adl_pci7296 driver pretty easily. Should I do this? This would
> completely remove the cb_pcidio driver and make the ni_pcidio
> driver a lot cleaner.

That sounds reasonable to me, but I'm sure Ian would know best.

greg k-h