[PATCH v2 13/13] tty: pruss SUART driver

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Wed Feb 23 13:20:53 EST 2011


On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 11:00:25AM +0530, Subhasish Ghosh wrote:
> I could not follow the recommendations clearly.
> This is just to clarify.
> 
> Currently, I have the following files for the suart implementation:
> 
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_api.h
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_err.h
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_regs.h
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_board.h
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_mcasp.h
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_utils.h
> 
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_api.c
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart.c
> drivers/tty/serial/da8xx_pruss/pruss_suart_utils.c
> 
> Of these, I will be removing pruss_suart_err.h as part of the Linux
> error code cleanup.
> But, I need to keep at least  pruss_suart_board.h as a separate
> file, as this defines
> configurations which will be often modified by users, I don't want
> to mix it with other files.

Why would a .h file ever need to be "modified by users"?  That sounds
wrong to me.

> Should I combine rest of the headers into a single file ?

Yes, why would they need to be separate?

> and keep the other three .c files under "drivers/tty/serial/" and
> remove the da8xx_pruss directory altogether.

Yes.

thanks,

greg k-h



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