From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 08:31:03 -0700 Message-ID: <20170403153103.GB22592@two.firstfloor.org> References: <20170401222119.25106-1-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <87pogur0y9.fsf@firstfloor.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Nicolas Pitre , Andi Kleen , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-arm Mailing List List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > While I can agree on making Linux stuff less fatty, I can't agree on > doing this way. We have for now two subsystems to serve for serial > devices, you are proposing third one for only narrow class of devices. It should be actually most (all?) real serial ones. > From my point of view is better to achive your goal with existing > system (as a proof of concept maybe even with ugly #ifdef:fery). I like the idea of mintty (if it supported ptys). Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind of cleanup. -Andi From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: andi@firstfloor.org (Andi Kleen) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2017 08:31:03 -0700 Subject: [PATCH v2 0/5] minitty: a minimal TTY layer alternative for embedded systems In-Reply-To: References: <20170401222119.25106-1-nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> <87pogur0y9.fsf@firstfloor.org> Message-ID: <20170403153103.GB22592@two.firstfloor.org> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > While I can agree on making Linux stuff less fatty, I can't agree on > doing this way. We have for now two subsystems to serve for serial > devices, you are proposing third one for only narrow class of devices. It should be actually most (all?) real serial ones. > From my point of view is better to achive your goal with existing > system (as a proof of concept maybe even with ugly #ifdef:fery). I like the idea of mintty (if it supported ptys). Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind of cleanup. -Andi