From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:28:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201008301428.34979.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100830115428.24e76ae5@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Monday 30 August 2010, Alan Cox wrote:
> > My impression was that it should actually be converted into an hvc
> > driver as a cleanup and moved to drivers/tty/hvc. It can probably
> > get reduced to one third of its size if you do that.
>
> Not sure it makes sense - hvc seems the wrong abstraction.
It seems to be very similar to hvc_tile.c in purpose, which is
the most trivial driver we have. Why would that not work?
Most of bfin_jtag_comm is about interfacing with the tty layer
and providing a kernel thread to do the polling, which is exactly
what hvc_console.c does.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-30 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-29 21:06 [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 1/5] tty: move tty layer code to drivers/tty Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 2/5] tty/vt: move files to drivers/tty/vt/ Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] tty/hvc: move files to drivers/tty/hvc Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 21:51 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-30 8:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 10:54 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 12:28 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2010-08-30 14:56 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-30 15:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 15:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-08-29 21:06 ` [PATCH 5/5] tty: rearrange Kconfig structure Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-29 23:18 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Alan Cox
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 11:55 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 12:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 13:00 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-30 21:04 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 18:47 ` Greg KH
2010-08-30 21:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-30 21:38 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-30 22:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 6:08 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:33 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 9:19 ` Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:19 ` [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: remove isicom Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 15:03 ` Joe Perches
2010-08-31 15:08 ` [PATCH 1/1] MAINTAINERS: orphan isicom Jiri Slaby
2010-08-31 9:26 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 10:42 ` Rogier Wolff
2010-08-31 11:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-31 11:54 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 13:32 ` Greg KH
2010-09-02 15:16 ` Michael H. Warfield
2010-09-03 12:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 12:58 ` Gene Heskett
2010-09-03 13:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 15:53 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-09-02 20:12 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-03 12:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-08-31 4:11 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 15:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 16:55 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 17:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-03 22:46 ` Greg KH
2010-09-03 20:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-03 20:32 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-03 20:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-09-21 23:07 ` Greg KH
2010-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: create /tty and move the tty core files there Greg KH
2010-09-21 23:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] TTY: create tty/vt and move the vt code there Greg KH
2010-09-22 9:10 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-22 9:13 ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: create /tty and move the tty core files there Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-23 1:12 ` [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around Greg KH
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