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From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is there a struct  uart_driver like struct i2c_driver
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 16:19:22 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lst92a$7lq$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 53F1CD68.9080901@ts.fujitsu.com

On 2014-08-18, Cestonaro Thilo <thilo.cestonaro@ts.fujitsu.com> wrote:

> I need to write a driver which communicates with it's chip via uart.
> So I was wondering which the best way is to do this.

What I think you're talking about is usually called a "line
discipline":

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/1891/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_discipline
http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/serial/serial.html

[Some of those links are a bit out-of-date, but should provide a good
idea what a line discipline is.]

Line disciplines are kernel drivers that use a well-defined API to
talk to the tty/serial/uart drivers that exist at a lower layer.

-- 
Grant Edwards               grant.b.edwards        Yow! MERYL STREEP is my
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-08-18 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-18  9:54 is there a struct uart_driver like struct i2c_driver Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-18 10:53 ` Greg KH
2014-08-18 11:11   ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-18 11:19     ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-18 13:43       ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-18 13:50         ` Greg KH
2014-08-18 14:56           ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-18 15:07             ` Greg KH
2014-08-19 12:25               ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-19 12:39                 ` Greg KH
2014-08-19 12:45                   ` Cestonaro Thilo
2014-08-25 14:57                     ` Greg KH
2014-08-18 16:19 ` Grant Edwards [this message]

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