Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 18:55:57 +0100 | | From | Martin Dalecki <> | | Subject | Re: Coding style - a non-issue |
| |
Russell King wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 06:42:17PM +0100, Martin Dalecki wrote: > > serial.c should be hooked at the misc char device interface sooner or > > later. > > Please explain. Especially contentrate on justifing why serial interfaces > aren't a tty device.
No problem ;-).
There is the hardware: in esp. the serial controller itself - this belongs to misc, becouse a mouse for example doesn't have to interpret any tty stuff This animal belongs to the same cage as the PS/2 variant of it. And then there is one abstraction level above it: the tty interface - this belongs to a line discipline.
We have this split anyway already there /dev/ttyS0 and /dev/cua0 somehow emulated on one level.
Understood? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |