Re: [patch 0/7] staging: speakup: introduce tty-based comms

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-03-13T23:43:23Z

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:26:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Greg KH, on mar. 14 mars 2017 06:14:04 +0800, wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:05:51PM +0000, okash.khawaja@gmail.com wrote:
> > > This patchset introduces a TTY-based way for the synths to communicate
> > > with devices as an alternate for direct serial comms used by the synths
> > > at the moment. It then migrates some of the synths to the TTY-based
> > > comms. Synths migrated in this patchset are dummy, acntsa, bns and
> > > txprt.
> >
> > What about using the serbus code that is now in the tree?
>
> I guess you mean serdev?

Sorry, yes.

> Well, for a start that didn't exist when Okash worked on the TTY part :)

Fair enough, but it has been discussed for many months now on the
linux-serial mailing list.

> > That should make this a lot easier than your patchset from what I can
> > see.
>
> Will serdev support modem line control? We need this for some devices.
> How is the serial port chosen with serdev?

Best asked on the linux-serial mailing list :)

thanks,

greg k-h