Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw | Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:28:34 +0200 |
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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
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