From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752121Ab0JHE7r (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:59:47 -0400 Received: from wolverine02.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.251]:1568 "EHLO wolverine02.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750960Ab0JHE7q (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 00:59:46 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="5400,1158,6129"; a="57036816" Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 21:59:40 -0700 Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: DCC(JTAG) serial and console emulation support Message-ID: <6lwrd5r5bkngwsfbw998jv3h.1286513980329@email.android.com> From: Daniel Walker To: Mike Frysinger Cc: Greg KH , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Hyok S. Choi" , Tony Lindgren , Jeff Ohlstein , Ben Dooks , Alan Cox , Kukjin Kim , Feng Tang , Tobias Klauser , Jason Wessel , Philippe Langlais MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by mail.home.local id o984xuDn001356 I'm not disputing the serial core part. I ok with converting it to tty. Daniel Mike Frysinger wrote: >On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 18:11, Daniel Walker wrote: >> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:52 -0700, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 02:47:18PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: >>> > On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 14:15 -0700, Greg KH wrote: >>> > > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 01:51:18PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: >>> > > > > We've said no over a period of about ten years to a lot of attempts to >>> > > > > just borrow the ttyS0 range. If we'd said yes it would have been a >>> > > > > complete mess by now. >>> > > > > >>> > > > > So the answer is no. >>> > > > >>> > > > Nothing can be unilateral, there's always room for exceptions. You >>> > > > should say something more like "it's possible, but unlikely". >>> > > >>> > > Hm, how about this, as the TTY and serial driver[1] maintainer, I will >>> > > not accept this kind of patch at all. >>> > > >>> > > Is that final enough for you? >>> > >>> > So you don't like it, that's fair enough .. I wonder what other >>> > maintainers I can send this too ;) >>> > >>> > Can you be more specific about your objections >>> >>> See everything that Mike and Alan wrote, do I need to repeat it? >> >> I'm not sure .. I would say "Yes" if I didn't get the feeling your >> already to tear my head off. >> >> I think the only disputed issue is the use of ttyS as options part of >> the driver .. > >and using "serial_core" at all in favor of HVC or tty_core (the latter >might be easier for you as the former is a bit of unknown atm) >-mike {.n++%ݶw{.n+{G{ayʇڙ,jfhz_(階ݢj"mG?&~iOzv^m ?I