Re: uart_ioctl OOPS with irtty-sir

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 04 2003 - 04:25:35 EST

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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.

-- Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html

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