Re: [PATCH 00/20] Implment a tty port structure and supporting logic

Alan Cox
2008-05-20T08:43:45Z

On Mon, 19 May 2008 18:39:43 -0400
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org> wrote:

> Alan,
> > Right now each tty has its own port level structure which means we can share
> > no code between ports. Introduce a structure and some initial minor helper
> > routines so that we can move towards commonality. In doing this the USB serial
> > code gets a bit of shake up as it kept using port->tty unsafely. Fixing that
> > means changing the API of all the USB serial drivers. On the bright side the
> > API now looks far more like the tty layer API which will become useful later
> > on.
> do you have your tty/serial rework tree available in some server?

Not currently. Its on my todo list to sort that out hence testign stuff
like stgit at the moment.

Alan