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

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Message-ID: <e8fb71ea-84cb-427a-9dc9-9c44ec0db08f@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:59:01 +0100
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/29] tty: cleanup no. 99

On 17. 03. 25, 5:28, Greg KH wrote:
> 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?

I planned to send a v2 on Fri, but did not make it. I will today.

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs