Re: 2.1.66 serial driver broken -- baud rates..

mlord (mlord@pobox.com)
Thu, 27 Nov 1997 21:30:33 -0500

Michael Nelson wrote:
>
> mlord wrote:
> -> Well.. it's better: now when I set spd_vhi, I get 38400.
>
> Use "spd_normal", and feed the real desired baud rate from your application.

Yup, that works! Thanks.

> My understanding is that the spd_hi and spd_vhi were a kludge for
> the old kernels and serial drivers that didn't understand speeds
> higher than 38400. They are no longer necessary in recent kernels.
> my fix works with 2.0.32 as well, even though the spd_vhi stuff
> wasn't broken there.

Right. Less urgent now, but we oughta still get a fix out for spd_vhi.

Cheers!

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