Re: [PATCH 0/5] tty: add flag to suppress ready signalling on open

[Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>]

On 02. 12. 20, 12:48, Johan Hovold wrote:
>>> but I question the
>>> usefulness of doing so, as it is a chicken and egg problem: one needs
>>> to open the tty device in order to do termios ioctls on it, and if
>>> that initial open triggers DTR/RTS hardware actions, then the end user
>>> is still screwed.  If Johan or someone else can see a potential use
>>> case for manipulating this new flag via termios (as opposed to sysfs
>>> or USB-ID-based driver quirks), perhaps you could elaborate on it?
>>
>> We would need to (ab)use another open flag (e.g. O_DIRECT). I am not
>> biased to either of solutions.
> 
> Forgot to mention that using open-flags would prevent using standard
> utilities like cat, echo and terminal programs. So for that reason a
> termios and/or sysfs interface is also preferred.

Nope, I meant it differently. You set it up once using the special open 
flag. Like with setserial, one sets I/O port, irqs etc. and then uses 
standard tools as the port is already set up (marked as NORDY in this case).

thanks,
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js