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

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Message-ID: <2025031738-variable-desecrate-ec2f@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:00:01 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <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>,
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	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
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	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>,
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	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 Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 05:59:01AM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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.

Not a problem, just wanted to make sure I didn't drop these on my side
accidentally.

thanks,

greg k-h