Re: Serial custom speed deprecated?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  Ar Iau, 2006-08-24 am 20:51 +0200, ysgrifennodd Krzysztof Halasa:
> > Not sure if we want int, uint, or long long for speed values :-)
> 
>  You want speed_t according to POSIX.

To get non-integral baud rates (of which there are a few but no longer
in common use) you'd probably want to supply a two integers which you
then divide.

This matches most hardware quite well, and for most cases you'd just
supply the divisor as 1.

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Nick Craig-Wood <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- http://www.craig-wood.com/nick
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