Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:12:26 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:26, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > On Tuesday 31 August 2010, Alan Cox wrote: >> > drivers/char/tty_* -> tty/* >> > drivers/char/{vt stuff} -> tty/vt/ >> > drivers/char/hvc_* -> drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_* >> > drivers/serial/* -> drivers/tty/serial/* >> >> There are dead bits in there too we should prune 68xxx stuff mostly > > Geert, can you comment on the 68k serial drivers? Which > ones are to stay, which ones can get phased out?
I don't know much about which drivers are still in active use. People don't really tell me ;-)
FWIW, if I use my Amiga's serial port, it's just for a serial console, in case all else fails (last time I needed that was several years ago).
We have 3 "classes" of serial drivers:
- generic_serial-based:
o MVME147_SCC o MVME162_SCC o BVME6000_SCC o A2232
All of these were marked BROKEN lately due to generic_serial, while there's even a new ATARI_SCC under "active" development...
- plain drivers/char:
o SERIAL167 o AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL
- drivers/serial:
o SERIAL_PMACZILOG (Mac)
Sun 3/3x support might be (re)added to SERIAL_SUNZILOG
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 15:00, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > Please don't convert stuff to serial_core - it's got some horrible > problems with adapting to the new locking model, its buffering model > pre-dates kfifo and all in all serial_core needs a rewrite not more users.
Funny... so "fortunately" we never found time to move the m68k serial drivers to driver/serial/? Long live procrastination ;-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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