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From: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	"John G. Heim" <jheim@math.wisc.edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: speakup bug
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:41:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120304014122.GA4333@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120304004348.GR4180@type.famille.thibault.fr>

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 01:43:48AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 
> Sure!  But there should be a way to do it without /, just like the
> serial console works on ttyUSB0 without /.

It's not impossible, but the hard part will be creating a naming
infrastructure so the user can specify the appropriate serial port if
there are multiple (non-console) tty devices present on the system.

My suggestion would be to get it working using a userspace daemon, and
then putting in the kernel code to open the serial port without a file
system.  It certainly can be done, with roughly the same techniques
that are used to mount the root file system in the non-initrd case.

     	      	       	   	     - Ted

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-04  1:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03 17:18 speakup bug John G. Heim
2012-03-03 17:39 ` Alan Cox
2012-03-03 22:01   ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04  0:01   ` John G. Heim
2012-03-04  0:18     ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04  0:21       ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04  0:41         ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04  0:43           ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04  0:44             ` Samuel Thibault
2012-03-04  1:41             ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-03-04  0:26     ` Ted Ts'o
2012-03-04  2:03   ` John G. Heim
2012-03-04 21:06     ` Alan Cox

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