Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: what serial driver restructure is planned? | Date | Mon, 11 Feb 2002 22:01:15 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Could we also have an interface to serial devices which bypass the tty > layer? Ie a /dev/ttyraw* which just speaks to the serial port without > going through the labyrinthine tty layers?
You've got one
> 9 times out of 10 when I reach for /dev/ttyS* that is all I want and > the tty layer is just wasteful and gets in the way of a conceptually > very simple device.
The only bits of the tty layer being used in raw data passing is the same buffer management logic you would need anyway. In short - the perceived waste is simply not there - 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/
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