On 12-01-04 05:01 PM, Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 15:01:27 -0500 > Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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) OK, I can do 8250. What do you have in mind for the legacy multiport drivers then, leave them as-in in drivers/tty or another subdir just for them? Thanks, P. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
