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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: ncw@axis.demon.co.uk (Nick Craig-Wood)
Cc: linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what serial driver restructure is planned?
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:01:15 +0000 (GMT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E16aOVf-00084P-00@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020211163059.A22996@axis.demon.co.uk> from "Nick Craig-Wood" at Feb 11, 2002 04:30:59 PM

> Could we also have an interface to serial devices which bypass the tty
> layer?  Ie a /dev/ttyraw* which just speaks to the serial port without
> going through the labyrinthine tty layers?

You've got one

> 9 times out of 10 when I reach for /dev/ttyS* that is all I want and
> the tty layer is just wasteful and gets in the way of a conceptually
> very simple device.

The only bits of the tty layer being used in raw data passing is the same
buffer management logic you would need anyway. In short - the perceived
waste is simply not there

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-11 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-06 18:32 Ed Vance
2002-02-07 10:21 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2002-02-11 16:30   ` Nick Craig-Wood
2002-02-11 22:01     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-02-12 10:38       ` Rogier Wolff
2002-02-07 16:11 ` Greg KH
     [not found] <194.2606a8e.299fb282@aol.com>
2002-02-16 17:06 ` Alan Cox

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