Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

Jamie Lokier
2000-12-07T13:09:51Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for
> > the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers
> > in user space.
>
> Good, someone finally implemented this. This is going to be mandatory
> if we want to support winmodems properly; also ISDN people might be
> interested [to kick AT emulation out of kernel].

For winmodems you can do a pretty good job with ptys -- the pty and tty
side access the same share termios structure. The new driver is a
much cleaner way to the same functionality though. (Conceptually; I
looked at the API summary but haven't looked at the code).

-- Jamie