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SubjectRe: [PATCH] serial: relocate remaining serial drivers from tty/ to tty/serial/
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)



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