Re: [PATCH] tty: MAX3100

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

Btw, Alan, since you're working on those tty drivers, one thing I thought 
I'd ask you is whether you'd be interested in moving the tty drivers to a 
subdirectory of their own.

>From a quick unscientific count, it looks like of the 271 files in 
drivers/char, about 90 are tty/console-related (done by "git grep -l 
'\<tty\>'"), and the rest are pretty random (either literally about random 
hardware or about agp or just odd stuff).

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?

Not a big deal, just wondering.

			Linus