From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261695AbTDJCST (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:18:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263710AbTDJCST (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:18:19 -0400 Received: from palrel10.hp.com ([156.153.255.245]:41453 "EHLO palrel10.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261695AbTDJCST (for ); Wed, 9 Apr 2003 22:18:19 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 19:29:58 -0700 To: Russell King Cc: Linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: uart_ioctl OOPS with irtty-sir Message-ID: <20030410022958.GB2270@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <20030404013405.GA19446@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <20030404102535.A29313@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030404102535.A29313@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 05:34:05PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > Unfortunately, the irtty-sir driver, which is a TTY line > > discipline and a network driver, need to be able to change the RTS and > > DTR line from a kernel thread. > > I'd prefer if we added an tty API to allow line disciplines to read/set > the modem control lines to the tty later, rather than having line > disciplines play games with IOCTLs. Hi, Who is responsible to managing the TTY API ? If I want to add a call to it, who am I supposed to send the patch to ? Thanks in advance... Jean