Re: [PATCH] tty: MAX3100

[Alan Cox]

> So I'm wondering if it would make sense to do a drivers/tty for the core 
> tty (ldisc, tty_io etc) stuff, and perhaps move some of the non-core 
> (serial) drivers into drivers/serial.
> 
> I don't know, for example, why drivers/char/stallion.c is not in 
> drivers/serial. Just historical reasons, or an actual reason?


drivers/serial is the stuff using the uart layer
drivers/usb/serial is the stuff using the USB serial layer
drivers/char is the stuff using neither

(plus exceptions and bits hiding in arch and stuff)

It probably will make sense as everything is slowly getting dragged
kicking and screaming to the point where all of these are a struct
tty_port with other stuff attached but for the moment its actually sort
of convenient to keep them apart.

Alan
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