linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/9] tty: tty_struct dependency clean-ups

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Date:   Sun, 11 Sep 2016 22:14:24 +0100
From:   One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:     Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] tty: tty_struct dependency clean-ups

On Fri,  9 Sep 2016 17:37:01 -0500
Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org> wrote:

> This patch series removes or prepares to remove some of the dependencies 
> on tty_struct within tty_port drivers. This will allow using tty_ports 
> directly for so called UART slave devices. 

You can create a tty_struct kernel side with the two tiny changes I
posted before. Why do you want to do invasive tree wide changes when you
can do simple ones ?

> Next up after this are moving some functions to the tty_port ops. I've 
> got some WIP patches for some of that, but nothing ready to send out 
> quite yet.

I think before this lot happens you need to decide where these structures
belong. Termios and termios_locked for example could live in the tty_port
as the physical tty is incapable of having multiple sets of terminal data
at once.

Really though this looks to me like *MASSIVE* churn for now purpose.
Create a tty_struct kernel side, and use that, the needed patch is then
tiny.

so IMHO NAK

Alan