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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: speed_t usage?
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 16:43:08 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZhVF7Dntnt1BbsMh@smile.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2024040905-stoppage-sampling-b575@gregkh>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 03:36:11PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 01:50:56PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > Recently while doing some serial driver cleanup I realised that TTY uses
> > speed_t type for baud rates. What is the appropriate use of it?
> > Either it is going to be killed (replaced with POD), or should / may we
> > spread it over tty/serial and further?
> 
> As it's a uapi interface we can't just delete it entirely, but please,
> do not spread it any further, and try to clean up what places in the
> kernel itself that we can to use a "real" type that we know the size of
> at all times (i.e. u32/u64), not just having to guess like we do today.

Thank you for clarification!

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-09 13:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-13 11:50 speed_t usage? Andy Shevchenko
2024-04-09 13:36 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-09 13:43   ` Andy Shevchenko [this message]

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