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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prev parent 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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