From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
To: Mockern@yandex.ru
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: serial and tty driver
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 12:24:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D74856.6090900@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D73BF6.000001.30155@pantene.yandex.ru>
Mockern wrote:
> I have a question, what is really difference between serial and tty
> drivers?
>
> As I understand tty is high level and communicates with user space.
The serial core implements many of the details of a tty
driver in a common place so that individual hardware drivers
(serial drivers) only need implement the hardware specific code.
This prevents duplicating tty logic in many drivers,
with the possibility of mistakes/inconsistency in the
different tty drivers.
The stand alone tty drivers are mostly legacy code from
the time before serial core that have not been ported
to be a serial drivers.
--
Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-17 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-17 17:31 serial and tty driver Mockern
2007-02-17 18:24 ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2007-02-17 23:20 ` Theodore Tso
2007-02-18 8:52 ` Mockern
2007-02-18 13:03 ` Theodore Tso
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