From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geert Uytterhoeven Subject: Re: [PATCH] m68k/atari: SCC - Move Atari serial driver to staging Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:30:10 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Michael Schmitz , Alan Cox Cc: Linux/m68k , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 21:03, Michael Schmitz wrote: > On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 10:11, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: >>> Cfr. commit 4c37705877e74c02c968735c2eee0f84914cf557 ("tty: move ob= solete and >>> broken generic_serial drivers to drivers/staging/generic_serial/") >> >> As generic serial is gone too, cfr. commit >> bb2a97e9ccd525dd9c3326988e8c676d15d3e12a ("Staging: delete generic_s= erial >> drivers"), I'll remove the atari_scc driver. It has to be resurrecte= d 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 = wrote: > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 15:00, Alan Cox wr= ote: >> 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 fram= ework in 2012? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 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= =2E But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something li= ke that. =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 -- Linus Torvalds