From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753982Ab0JGTMP (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:12:15 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:55321 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753846Ab0JGTMO (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Oct 2010 15:12:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 20:38:01 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Savoy, Pavan" Cc: Jiri Slaby , "gregkh@suse.de" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers:staging:ti-st: move TI_ST from staging Message-ID: <20101007203801.1c55a1d3@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21D220@dbde02.ent.ti.com> References: <1286381895-11329-1-git-send-email-pavan_savoy@ti.com> <1286381895-11329-2-git-send-email-pavan_savoy@ti.com> <4CACD234.7020900@gmail.com> <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21CEA1@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <4CACF5A7.3010601@gmail.com> <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21CEC6@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <4CAD7DAB.8030209@gmail.com> <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21D193@dbde02.ent.ti.com> <4CAE10C0.9000106@gmail.com> <19F8576C6E063C45BE387C64729E739404AA21D220@dbde02.ent.ti.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > The situation here was to access the UART from a kernel driver. Say we have > a V4L2 FM radio over the UART, How can I write a v4L2 driver? I has to be a > line discipline driver correct? Why would you want to ? you can just control it from user space. If you did want to drive it from the kernel then an ldisc would be one way to do it I guess. Alan