linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around

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Message-ID: <20100830140054.294a15f1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:00:54 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:15:56 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:

> On Monday 30 August 2010, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 08/30/2010 01:37 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > These are the drivers I was planning to move:
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_CYCLADES)         += cyclades.o
> > 
> > There are some users still with CYY cards. No CYZ card users known to me.
> > 
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MOXA_INTELLIO)    += moxa.o
> > 
> > Maybe few users left.
> > 
> > > +obj-$(CONFIG_MOXA_SMARTIO)     += mxser.o
> > 
> > Still in use. (And supports relatively new devices; not the PCI-e ones
> > though.)
> 
> Are they all candidates for a conversion to serial_core then?
> Or are they not sufficiently 8250-like?

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.
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