Re: [PATCH] PCI serial card support

[Robert Millan]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:28:57AM -0800, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
> The Linux driver has over 600
> lines of customized code for over 100 different devices
> to do this task.  Trying to duplicate that code from
> scratch is rather unfeasible.

Before we continue, did you check if that code in particular is GPLv2 only
or "or later"?  I think most drivers in Linux are in fact "or later".

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