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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial: relocate remaining serial drivers from tty/ to tty/serial/
On 12-01-04 05:01 PM, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:01:27 -0500
> Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> wrote:
>
>> The commit ab4382d27412e7e3e7c936e8d50d8888dfac3df8,
>>
>> "tty: move drivers/serial/ to drivers/tty/serial/"
>>
>> put most of the serial drivers together in one place, but the ones
>> that were hiding in drivers/char didn't get picked up in that change.
>>
>> They did get moved in commit a6afd9f3e819de4795fcd356e5bfad446e4323f2
>>
>> "tty: move a number of tty drivers from drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/"
>>
>> but there was no distinction of serial vs. non-serial in the above.
>>
>> Here we take the remaining serial drivers (mostly legacy multiport
>> drivers) and put them alongside all the others in tty/serial/ dir.
>>
>> We can drop SERIAL_NONSTANDARD's dependency on HAS_IOMEM, since the
>> encompassing menu block already has that dependency called out.
>
> NAK
>
> The tty/serial directory is the stuff using serial_core. I'm not averse
> to moving the others down a layer into more appropriate places but its
> already too crowded and in need of re-ordering (eg tty/serial/8250/...
> might be an improvement)

OK, I can do 8250. What do you have in mind for the legacy multiport
drivers then, leave them as-in in drivers/tty or another subdir just
for them?

Thanks,
P.

>


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