From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S938961AbZDJPXA (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:23:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S938884AbZDJPWk (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:22:40 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59084 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S938936AbZDJPWj (ORCPT ); Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:22:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:21:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Cox cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: MAX3100 In-Reply-To: <20090408114427.28788.50640.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20090408114427.28788.50640.stgit@t61.ukuu.org.uk> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 '\'"), 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