From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de ([195.145.119.39]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.14 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 192ogW-0001YI-73 for ; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 09:42:28 +0100 Received: from ylva.bhp.t-online.de (ylva.ada.t-online.de [172.30.8.40]) 21 2002)) with SMTP id <0HD000HQWO5Z4L@smtp-out.bhp.t-online.de> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 08 Apr 2003 10:42:00 +0200 (MEST) Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:42:15 +0200 From: Thomas Gleixner In-reply-to: <1049790892.18045.120.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> To: David Woodhouse , =?utf-8?q?J=C3=B6rn=20Engel?= Message-id: <200304081142.15852.tglx@linutronix.de> MIME-version: 1.0 References: <20030407171037.GB8178@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030407194039.GF8178@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1049790892.18045.120.camel@passion.cambridge.redhat.com> Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org cc: Andi Kleen cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New kernel tree for embedded linux Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tuesday 08 April 2003 10:34, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:40, J=C3=B6rn Engel wrote: > > Some more partitioning code that only applies to spinning discs of > > some sort (ide, scsi) or code that emulates spinning discs is always > > included. No config option. > > We definitely want CONFIG_BLK_DEV. CONFIG_SWAP is a good start. > > > Another one is serial.c. In an ltp test run, plus serial console, som= e > > 90% were unused. And the code gave me some shivers. Volunteers? > > The new serial code is somewhat nicer. Still contains unconditional > support for a lot of bizarre 8250 variations, but I don't think that's > really taking up much space though. This driver should really supersede the ugly drivers/char/serial.c. And i= ts=20 definitly usefull for all embedded systems, not only for x86 based stuff. --=20 Thomas ________________________________________________________________________ linutronix - competence in embedded & realtime linux http://www.linutronix.de mail: tglx@linutronix.de