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Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 09:31:27 +0100
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@ruivo.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Implment a tty port structure and supporting
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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