Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stuart MacDonald" <> | Subject | Re: [patch] DTR/DSR hardware handshake support for 2.0/2.2/2.4 | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:53:30 -0400 |
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From: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> > Using some new flags in c_cflags is the way to go, if we decide to go > this way. But it does mean chewing up a bunch of extra bits, and I > really do wonder how many people *really* need this. Maybe I'll set up > a survey on serial.sourceforge.net to determine whether or not there's > enough people to want this kind of feature bloat..... in any case, I'm > not terribly inclined to consider this before 2.4, especially since > Linus finally seems to be serious about the code freeze.
We've needed it in the past. My hardware guy expects that we'll need it eventually. I vote for the patch, but think that it should wait to 2.5. If Martin hadn't done it I probably would have eventually.
..Stu
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