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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@googlemail.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k/atari: SCC - Move Atari serial driver to staging
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:30:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdWCb-As2U1rxtaa9QWznc_yD_MWG3-5AMy5LDvp1jJUXw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOmrzkJGhoBfqeTGROWdDXeL4HVJq2XaPJEtn0CzuNTOyCab9A@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 21:03, Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:11, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> Cfr. commit 4c37705877e74c02c968735c2eee0f84914cf557 ("tty: move obsolete and
>>> broken generic_serial drivers to drivers/staging/generic_serial/")
>>
>> As generic serial is gone too, cfr. commit
>> bb2a97e9ccd525dd9c3326988e8c676d15d3e12a ("Staging: delete generic_serial
>> drivers"), I'll remove the atari_scc driver. It has to be resurrected as a new
>> preferred-type-of-serial-driver-of-the-day driver anyway.
>
> Guess I've seen that coming... I had looked at other existing SCC
> drivers in the tree and Sun, SGI and Mac all had variants of it with
> different quirks. Enough to base a clean restart on. What is today's
> preferred-type-of-serial-driver-of-the-day driver framework, if I may
> ask?

Good question! Last year it was _not_ drivers/serial...

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 22:12, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 15:00, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> Please don't convert stuff to serial_core - it's got some horrible
>> problems with adapting to the new locking model, its buffering model
>> pre-dates kfifo and all in all serial_core needs a rewrite not more users.
>
> Funny... so "fortunately" we never found time to move the m68k serial drivers
> to driver/serial/? Long live procrastination ;-)

So let's ask the experts: what will be the preferred serial driver framework
in 2012?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

       reply	other threads:[~2011-11-02 20:30 UTC|newest]

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2011-11-02 20:30     ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2011-11-03 15:12       ` [PATCH] m68k/atari: SCC - Move Atari serial driver to staging Alan Cox

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