From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] tty/hw: move hardware drivers to drivers/tty/hw
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:28:34 +0200
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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.

	Arnd
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