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On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:34 +0200, Sébastien Chrétien wrote:
> ok is it a bad way to write a tty driver ? why ?

Not necessarily, it's just overkill. The UART layer handles a lot
of stuff for you. The tty layer is tricky to get right.

Cheers,
Ben.