[Lcdproc] New unified serial driver

Peter Marschall peter@adpm.de
Sun May 21 15:09:02 2006


Hi,

On Sunday, 21. May 2006 12:06, you wrote:
> On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 07:20:27PM +0200, Peter Marschall wrote:
> > Would you mind if i include the patch into LCDproc CVS ?
>
> Currently the patch doesn't add any new feature to lcdproc (apart from
> bitrate selection).
> Erik has just finished working on the hardware part, so I can start
> working on backlight and keypad support.
> I think it's worth including into cvs only when the schematics of the
> connection are available and the driver is ready (with some
> documentation ;-).

O.K. 
I will wait for you to ping me.

> > What about associationg the new driver with the three connection types
> > in hd44780-drivers.h to get it referenced by any of these connection
> > types and to read the "ConnectionType" config parameter in the init
> > routine to get the select which device is really wanted.
>
> Uhmmm... good idea!
> I will also reuse the previous naming scheme. This will make
> upgrading less painful ;-).

Always glad to help ;-)

Thanks for helping LCDproc
Peter

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Peter Marschall
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