From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 17:52:45 +0200 Message-Id: <199908301552.RAA23128@lxp03.cern.ch> From: Jes Sorensen To: schmitz@opal.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de Cc: "David D. Kilzer" , linux-mac68k@mac.linux-m68k.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: mac-2.3.14.diff: adb In-Reply-To: <37CAA6F5.D93A168B@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> References: <199908270917.LAA04250@lxp03.cern.ch> <199908271414.QAA24261@lxp03.cern.ch> <37CAA6F5.D93A168B@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Schmitz 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 [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]