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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 08:28, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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.

i have no idea what "hvc" is, but my limited knowledge was that it was
for large powerpc servers, so i didnt bother looking at it too much.
i simply wanted a way to create a tty on top of the hardware channel.
if there is a framework that doesnt break this usage and lets me
simplify my driver, then either works for me.
-mike


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