Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Mar 08 2005 - 02:05:30 EST


On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote:
> Since some tools in Digi company need these new ioctls to access device
> driver. I still keep these new ioctls.

What tools? What are they used for? Why do they need them? Why can't
they just use the sysfs files?

As the driver isn't in the kernel tree, there should not be any users
expecting these ioctls to be around, right?

thanks,

greg k-h
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