Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: MAX3100 |
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Btw, Alan, since you're working on those tty drivers, one thing I thought I'd ask you is whether you'd be interested in moving the tty drivers to a subdirectory of their own.
From a quick unscientific count, it looks like of the 271 files in drivers/char, about 90 are tty/console-related (done by "git grep -l '\<tty\>'"), and the rest are pretty random (either literally about random hardware or about agp or just odd stuff).
So I'm wondering if it would make sense to do a drivers/tty for the core tty (ldisc, tty_io etc) stuff, and perhaps move some of the non-core (serial) drivers into drivers/serial.
I don't know, for example, why drivers/char/stallion.c is not in drivers/serial. Just historical reasons, or an actual reason?
Not a big deal, just wondering.
Linus
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