Re: 921Kbps on Linux: is it possible ?!?!
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:29:52 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Given that getting new features into Linux 2.2 is pretty much closed at
> this point, it's going to have to wait for Linux 2.3; and if we're going
> to wait for Linux 2.3, I'd much rather do things right and simply move
> to actually putting the ipseed and opseed values directly into the
> struct termios, and then make the tcsetispeed and tcsetopseed functions
> take arbitrary baud rates, and make B9600 be 9600, B115200 be 115200,
> etc.
>
> It's the solution BSD 4.4 choose, and it really is the cleanest fix. We
> can use glibc and symbol versioning to provide backwards compatibility
> to handle the ABI change.
>
> - Ted
>
This is the way to go.
-hpa
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