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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: Heads Up: Next Batch Of Serial/TTY Changes
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:41:15 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 22:11:05 +0100

> Firstly some architecture maintainers still haven't updated their
> platform for arbitary tty speeds. The kernel is going to start whining
> and issuing warnings on your platform if you don't keep up with the
> programme (its been 6 months).

I took a look at this for sparc and I'm currently balking the same way
you did :-) The current bit usage on sparc just don't work properly
for what you're trying to do.