linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/29] tty: cleanup no. 99

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Message-ID: <2025031738-fabric-alright-6a32@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:28:07 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: "Jiri Slaby (SUSE)" <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Lin <dtwlin@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
	Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
	linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@...aro.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] tty: cleanup no. 99

On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Jiri Slaby (SUSE) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this is (again) a series of cleanup in tty. I am trying to rework
> tty+serial to avoid limitations of devices (so called NR_UART or
> tty_alloc_driver()'s first parameter). And the below popped up while
> crawling through the code. So this is only a prep cleanup.
> 
> * many tty flags are now enums
> * many functions were improved for readability
> * quite a few unused or old code dropped
> 
> In particular, the runtime behaviour of the kernel before and after the
> changes is supposed to be bug to bug compatible (except moxa's ioctl
> and ISA evils dropped). That is, noone should notice.

Were you going to do a new respin of this, or do you want me to take
this as-is and you will send a follow-up ones for the commented-on
changes?

thanks,

greg k-h