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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: J Freyensee <james_p_freyensee@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	suhail.ahmed@intel.com, christophe.guerard@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] Intel PTI implementaiton of MIPI 1149.7.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:36:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1102281935260.2701@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1298915213.3156.32.camel@localhost>

On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, J Freyensee wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 10:28 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > +static struct miscdevice pti_char_driver = {
> > > +	.minor		= MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
> > > +	.name		= CHARNAME,
> > > +	.fops		= &pti_char_driver_ops
> > > +};
> > > +
> > 
> > It's really strange to have both a tty and a character device that have similar
> > operations. Why can't you have the pti_char_driver functionality in the tty driver?
> > 
> 
> Because that is not what the customer wanted and this is why the driver
> is located in misc/ ;-).  

Brilliant argument. Next time you tell us that the customer wanted a
root hole in his driver and that's why you put it there.

What's the fcking technical reason for having a char and a tty device ?

Thanks,

	tglx

      reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-24 18:06 james_p_freyensee
2011-02-28  9:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-02-28 17:46   ` J Freyensee
2011-02-28 18:36     ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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