> The basic reason for all this is to eventually allow the low-level > serial drivers to function without a uart_info structure being > allocated. This will allow the serial console, debuggers like kgdb, > and the IPMI serial driver to use one interface to the uart code and
Its cheaper to allocate a uart_info that keep doing all the checks, at least for port->info. I can see why you want to avoid port->info->tty as a debugger can end up running before the tty layer and that would be hard to work around. For the other macros - the macros are more efficient than the equivalent inline code generation at least for some gccs. Do you really need any of this change but to check info->tty ? Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
