From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
To: schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
Cc: "David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@computer.org>,
linux-mac68k@mac.linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@cs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: mac-2.3.14.diff: adb
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:52:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199908301552.RAA23128@lxp03.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37CAA6F5.D93A168B@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>
>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Schmitz <schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> writes:
Michael> Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> No drivers/adb to handle the ADB bus, the char driver should go in
>> drivers/char.
>>
>> I always disliked drivers/macintosh and drivers/sbus/char for that
>> matter as it seems to me like it was just an easy way to get things
>> past Linus.
Michael> I agree - IIRC Paul created drivers/macintosh as a quick fix to
Michael> get the Mac drivers integrated. I've suggested to move things
Michael> to other places, but Alan sait this would be 'a 2.3 thing' at
Michael> that time. Seems a bit late for that now.
IMHO there is still time, I doubt Linus would object to patch for this
at the moment.
Wouldn't it be natural to move the Mac 8530 serial driver to
drivers/char and the rest to drivers/adb? or is the via stuff not adb
related?
Paul what do you think?
Jes
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <v03130327b3ebecbebbd3@[192.168.1.1]>
[not found] ` <199908270917.LAA04250@lxp03.cern.ch>
1999-08-27 13:41 ` mac-2.3.14.diff: adb David D. Kilzer
1999-08-27 14:14 ` Jes Sorensen
1999-08-30 15:44 ` Michael Schmitz
1999-08-30 15:52 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
1999-08-30 16:27 ` Michael Schmitz
1999-08-31 2:43 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-08-31 4:25 ` David D. Kilzer
1999-08-31 7:21 ` Paul Mackerras
1999-08-31 9:04 ` Jes Sorensen
1999-08-31 9:11 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-08-31 17:00 ` David A. Gatwood
1999-08-27 14:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
1999-08-28 1:20 ` David D. Kilzer
1999-08-28 11:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
1999-09-06 13:37 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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