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From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>,
	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>, Russell Doty <rdoty@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:15:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211191543.32ce2da8@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0612111954120.4039@poirot.grange>

> there as "protocols" for user-tty interfaces, i.e., you need a user, that 
> opens a tty, sets a line discipline to it, and does io (read/write) over 
> it, and NOT to be completely initialised and driven from the kernel.

Take a look at the SLIP driver. User space sets up the port but all the
actual I/O is to/from the kernel not via user space.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 19:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-16 16:53 [PATCH] Add the ability to layer another driver over the serial driver Corey Minyard
2006-12-10 19:19 ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-10 20:21   ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-11  1:23     ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 10:20       ` Alan
2006-12-11 14:52         ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 15:19           ` Alan
2006-12-11 16:29             ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 17:15               ` Alan
2006-12-11 17:22                 ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-19 19:27             ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-11 16:58         ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-11 17:07           ` Corey Minyard
2006-12-12 23:50             ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-11 17:40           ` Alan
2006-12-13  0:21             ` Tilman Schmidt
2006-12-11 19:01         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-11 19:15           ` Alan [this message]
2006-12-11 20:16             ` Guennadi Liakhovetski

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