Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:31:49 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: good example of a tty driver |
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On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:27:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:48:09 -0500 > Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > > > Alan, > > > > Can you point me at any good drivers to use as an example of using the > > tty layer. I'm trying to get an out of tree driver brought up to date > > for the Avocent ESP-16 MI Serial Hubs (serial over ethernet): > > Its very much in flux with the drivers getting kref support, helper > functions and the like in the current releases. > > > > > http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/products/network-based/esp_16.asp > > > > Thankfully the have a GPL driver but it was last updated against 2.6.23: > > > > http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/drivers/esp_serial_hubs/dd64e069.asp > > > > However I've never worked on any tty drivers so its a bit black magic > > at this point. I was hoping that an example would at least get me > > able to bring the driver up to a point that we can get it into the > > staging tree. > > I would make it build, chuck it in the staging tree and go from there
That sounds good to me as well. Kumar, feel free to send me a patch :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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