RE: Serial custom speed deprecated?

["Stuart MacDonald" <stuartm@connecttech.com>]

From: On Behalf Of Alan Cox
> At this point I think we need
> 
> -	An ioctl to set/get the actual baud rate input/output
> -	Some kind of termios flag to indicate they are being 
> used (as we have
> CBAUDEX now). [We could "borrow" the 4Mbit one and dual use it IMHO]
> 
> For drivers tty_get_baud_rate would return the actual speed as before.
> 
> We would need a driver ->set_speed method for the cases where
> - ioctl is called to set specific board rate
> - OR termios values for tty speed change
> - While we are at it we might want to make ->set_termios also 
> allowed to fail
> 
> [and if you had no ->set_speed method non standard speeds would be
> refused by the tty layer for back compat]
> 
> Anyone got any problems with this before I go and implement it ?

Sounds good.

..Stu