From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760316AbYESQvd (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 12:51:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753761AbYESQv0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 12:51:26 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42701 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752925AbYESQvZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 May 2008 12:51:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 09:50:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Implment a tty port structure and supporting logic Message-ID: <20080519165049.GA19896@kroah.com> References: <20080519144557.19326.74313.stgit@core> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080519144557.19326.74313.stgit@core> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 03:50:07PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Right now each tty has its own port level structure which means we can share > no code between ports. Introduce a structure and some initial minor helper > routines so that we can move towards commonality. In doing this the USB serial > code gets a bit of shake up as it kept using port->tty unsafely. Fixing that > means changing the API of all the USB serial drivers. On the bright side the > API now looks far more like the tty layer API which will become useful later > on. Very nice. If you don't mind, I'll be glad to take this through my tree as you are touching the usb-serial drivers so much. Andrew, any objection to this? > MAINTAINERS | 72 + Odd, I don't see you modifing this file in your patch series... thanks, greg k-h