[Q] comedi 8255 based PCI boards

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Wed Sep 12 16:25:05 UTC 2012


On 2012-09-12 03:00, Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh at linuxfoundation.org) wrote:
> 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.

It's okay if you can think up a good name for the combined driver.

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