From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: MAX3100
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0904100808350.4583@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090408114427.28788.50640.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk>
Btw, Alan, since you're working on those tty drivers, one thing I thought
I'd ask you is whether you'd be interested in moving the tty drivers to a
subdirectory of their own.
>From a quick unscientific count, it looks like of the 271 files in
drivers/char, about 90 are tty/console-related (done by "git grep -l
'\<tty\>'"), and the rest are pretty random (either literally about random
hardware or about agp or just odd stuff).
So I'm wondering if it would make sense to do a drivers/tty for the core
tty (ldisc, tty_io etc) stuff, and perhaps move some of the non-core
(serial) drivers into drivers/serial.
I don't know, for example, why drivers/char/stallion.c is not in
drivers/serial. Just historical reasons, or an actual reason?
Not a big deal, just wondering.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-10 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-08 11:44 [PATCH] tty: MAX3100 Alan Cox
2009-04-08 17:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2009-04-08 18:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-10 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2009-04-11 0:00 ` Alan Cox
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2009-04-08 19:13 Alan Cox
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