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SubjectAdvice on a userspace tty serial driver
G'day all,

I'm building a bit of hardware. It's basically a serial multiplexer that communicates to the PC
using a single usb-serial port. It has the ability to run between 2 and 8 standard async ports over
this single interface.

I'd rather not write a kernel driverif possible as I figure this would be a perfect application for
a userspace daemon to do the control and mux/demux. I'd prefer to present standard serial style
devices (/dev/ttySxx) to userspace giving me the ability to run unmodified software to talk to the
multiplexed ports.

I think tty/pty pairs looks roughly what I'm after, but will they allow me to use standard IOCTLS
for conveying baud rate and other standard serial parameters to the daemon?

I've spotted several userspace serial driver projects in the last 7 or so years, but I can't seem to
find any that made it into the kernel.

Am I on the right track with tty/pty or is there a better way?

Regards,
Brad
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