Re: 8250 serial console fixes -- issue

[Russell King]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 05:18:05PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > What about those who have incomplete null modem cables which might
> > not connect DCD or DSR, but who want to use hardware flow control?
> 
> BTW: Obviously CRTSCTS is a different thing than a modem with
> hardware handshaking. Basically CRTSCTS is a fixed, transparent
> line. So if we do Hayes modem console, it would better be another
> option.

I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're saying.

CRTSCTS is to enable RTS/CTS hardware handshaking for the tty, which
is what the modem wants if it is doing hardware handshaking.  Why
should we invent a non-standard option to enable RTS/CTS hardware
handshaking when CRTSCTS is already defined to do this?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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