Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:38:21 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > > Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for > > the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers > > in user space. > > Good, someone finally implemented this. This is going to be mandatory > if we want to support winmodems properly; also ISDN people might be > interested [to kick AT emulation out of kernel].
For winmodems you can do a pretty good job with ptys -- the pty and tty side access the same share termios structure. The new driver is a much cleaner way to the same functionality though. (Conceptually; I looked at the API summary but haven't looked at the code).
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