From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] serial: make bugs field not specific to 8250 type uarts. Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 00:51:50 +0000 Message-ID: <20111202005150.2e9fde43@bob.linux.org.uk> References: <1322783258-20443-1-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> <1322783258-20443-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:5199 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755770Ab1LBAkV (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Dec 2011 19:40:21 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1322783258-20443-2-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: gregkh@suse.de, galak@kernel.crashing.org, scottwood@freescale.com, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Make the bugs field part of the globally visible struct > uart_port and remove the 8250 specific one. Except all the bits in it are 8250 specific things or names that are meaningless in generic form - no. I also don't want to encourage flags and bug bits. We already have too many and its making the code a mess. So right now we want less not more.