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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Patrick van de Lageweg <patrick@bitwizard.nl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rogier Wolff <wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:38:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001207133821.A9656@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011300903470.11226-100000@panoramix.bitwizard.nl> <20001202225909.B6988@bug.ucw.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20001202225909.B6988@bug.ucw.cz>; from pavel@suse.cz on Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:59:09PM +0100

Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for
> > the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers
> > in user space.
> 
> Good, someone finally implemented this. This is going to be mandatory
> if we want to support winmodems properly; also ISDN people might be
> interested [to kick AT emulation out of kernel].

For winmodems you can do a pretty good job with ptys -- the pty and tty
side access the same share termios structure.  The new driver is a
much cleaner way to the same functionality though.  (Conceptually; I
looked at the API summary but haven't looked at the code).

-- Jamie
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      reply	other threads:[~2000-12-07 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-30  8:04 Patrick van de Lageweg
2000-11-30  8:22 ` Tigran Aivazian
2000-11-30  9:47   ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-30 15:00     ` Russell King
2000-11-30 16:47       ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-30 16:54         ` Russell King
2000-11-30 23:09           ` Rogier Wolff
2000-12-02 21:59 ` Pavel Machek
2000-12-07 12:38   ` Jamie Lokier [this message]

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