From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762718AbWLKKMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:12:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762716AbWLKKMl (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:12:41 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:57623 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762712AbWLKKMk (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:12:40 -0500 Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:20:16 +0000 From: Alan To: Corey Minyard Cc: Guennadi Liakhovetski , Tilman Schmidt , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Hansjoerg Lipp , Russell Doty Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver Message-ID: <20061211102016.43e76da2@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <457CB32A.2060804@mvista.com> References: <4533B8FB.5080108@mvista.com> <20061210201438.tilman@imap.cc> <457CB32A.2060804@mvista.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 19:23:54 -0600 Corey Minyard wrote: > Nothing has come of this yet. But we have these two requests and a > request from Russell Doty at Redhat. > > It would be nice to know if this type of thing was acceptable or not, > and the problems with the patch. The patch is at > http://home.comcast.net/~minyard This looks wrong. You already have a kernel interface to serial drivers. It is called a line discipline. We use it for ppp, we use it for slip, we use it for a few other things such as attaching sync drivers to some devices. Discussions of the form "my line discipline has no way to do 'xyz'" are the ones that need to happen IMHO. Alan