From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:55:49 +0200
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On Sunday 29 August 2010, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >  MAINTAINERS                                        |   22 +-
> >  drivers/char/Kconfig                               |  287 +------------------
> >  drivers/char/Makefile                              |   28 +--
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/Kconfig                        |   22 --
> >  drivers/char/pcmcia/Makefile                       |    3 -
> >  drivers/tty/Makefile                               |    1 +
> >  drivers/tty/hw/Kconfig                             |  308 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  drivers/tty/hw/Makefile                            |   27 ++
> >  drivers/{char => tty/hw}/amiserial.c               |    0
> 
> does it need to be in tty/hw/ ?  seems like there's so little in tty/
> to not bother with a further hw/ ...

Well, the idea here was to split the stuff that is commonly used
from the obsolete drivers.

BTW, the bfin_jtag_comm.c looks less obsolete than the rest of those
drivers, so I wasn't completely sure whether or not to move it into
the same place as the others.
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.

	Arnd
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