Re: [PATCH] implement TIOCGSERIAL in sn_serial.c

[Jesse Barnes]

On Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:31 am, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 11:09:51AM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > The sn2 console driver behaves something like a serial port, but was
> > missing some of the ioctls that userland apps expected.  This patch
> > implements the TIOCGSERIAL ioctl, which allows applications to identify
> > the console as a serial port.
>
> And whats the point for this one?  TIOCGSERIAL is just some messy internals
> of the old serial.c driver (and serial_core now) that's exposed for the
> sake of setserial.  Given that the sn console is quite different I don't
> see the point to emulate all the mess of a real serial driver - and if you
> want to do so use the serial_core framework.

Pat is working on that and should have a patch ready to post soon (is that 
right Pat?).  In the meantime, we need this little bit.

Jesse
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