Re: [PATCH 1/3] tty: move remaining serial drivers into the serial/ directory

Jiri Slaby
2026-05-05T05:59:34Z

On 05. 05. 26, 3:20, Ethan Nelson-Moore wrote:
> A few TTY drivers are outside the serial/ directory despite being for
> serial devices.

Yes, but serial/ (historically) contains drivers using serial_core. tty/
contains drivers using tty_driver (which all of three unfortunately do).

There was a patchset from Crescent Hsieh (Moxa) to convert mxser [1].
Amiserial should be likely converted too -- Amiga users still around?
There is no MAINTAINERS entry for Amiga, trying to CC m68k...

I am not sure even about users of Moxa Intellio. I think I prompted long
time ago. Oh yes, Ray Chen (CCed) from Moxa wrote me back in 2021:
=== 8< ===
For the Intellio cards, we phased them out in 2017.
You may find the discontinuance notification as attached.
We will keep the software support for 5 years, to 2023.
=== 8< ===

I believe we can mark it as BROKEN to let someone convert it to
serial_core. Or drop it for good already.

[1]
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20251130104222.63077-1-crescentcy.hsieh@moxa.com/

thanks,
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js
suse labs