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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] serial: remove back and forth conversions in serial_out_sync
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:22:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120302112204.4f990c78@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1330655603-5268-6-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>

On Thu,  1 Mar 2012 21:33:21 -0500
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:

> The two callers to serial_out_sync() have a struct port right
> there in scope, but then pass in a struct 8250_port which then
> is locally resolved to a struct port.

This change I don't like. It means serial_out_sync and serial_out end
up with different parameters which seems odd to say the least. You then
extend this oddity by adding helpers for port_in/out but not the sync
one.

Otherwise it all looks good to me.

Alan



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-02 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-02  2:33 [RFC PATCH 0/7] serial: cleanups that strive to do nothing Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 1/7] serial: delete last unused traces of pausing I/O in 8250 Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 2/7] serial: make 8250's serial_in shareable to other drivers Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 3/7] serial: delete useless void casts in 8250.c Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 4/7] serial: reduce number of indirections in 8250 code Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 5/7] serial: remove back and forth conversions in serial_out_sync Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02 11:22   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-03-02 14:13     ` Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 6/7] serial: introduce generic port in/out helpers Paul Gortmaker
2012-03-02  2:33 ` [PATCH 7/7] serial: use serial_port_in/out vs serial_in/out in 8250 Paul Gortmaker

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