From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>, Russell Doty <rdoty@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 17:58:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <457D8E35.9050706@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061211102016.43e76da2@localhost.localdomain>
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:20:16 +0000, Alan wrote:
> This looks wrong. You already have a kernel interface to serial drivers.
> It is called a line discipline. We use it for ppp, we use it for slip, we
> use it for a few other things such as attaching sync drivers to some
> devices.
I was under the impression that line disciplines need a user space
process to open the serial device and push them onto it. Is there
a way for a driver to attach to a serial port through the line
discipline interface from kernel space, eg. from an initialization,
module load, or probe function?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-11 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-16 16:53 [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver Corey Minyard
2006-12-10 19:19 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-10 20:21 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-11 1:23 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 10:20 ` Alan
2006-12-11 14:52 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 15:19 ` Alan
2006-12-11 16:29 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 17:15 ` Alan
2006-12-11 17:22 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-19 19:27 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 16:58 ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2006-12-11 17:07 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-12 23:50 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-11 17:40 ` Alan
2006-12-13 0:21 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-11 19:01 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-11 19:15 ` Alan
2006-12-11 20:16 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
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