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From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: serio interface
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:21:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46692DA0.8090204@imap.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46682E93.1020602@imap.cc>

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/me wrote:
> Have a look at drivers/isdn/gigaset/ser-gigaset.c if you like,
> a driver for an ISDN adapter attached via RS232.
> 
> This is currently implemented as a line discipline, but I consider
> that a hack. [...]
> The serio approach used by input/mouse/sermouse.c might provide a
> more sensible way of driving that kind of device.

Apparently it won't. As I have learned in the meantime, the serio
mechanism in turn just uses a line discipline to actually attach
itself to the serial port. So the line discipline interface
remains "the" way to write a layered driver on top of RS232.

Thanks,

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-08 10:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-06  9:11 serio interface Lars K.W. Gohlke
2007-06-06  9:15 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-06-06  9:34   ` Lars K.W. Gohlke
2007-06-06  9:51     ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-06-06 10:39       ` Lars K.W. Gohlke
2007-06-06 10:44         ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-06-06 10:52           ` Lars K.W. Gohlke
2007-06-06 11:26             ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-06-06 11:36               ` Lars K.W. Gohlke
2007-06-07 16:13       ` Tilman Schmidt
2007-06-08 10:21         ` Tilman Schmidt [this message]
2007-06-06 11:20 ` Jiri Slaby

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