From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 11:34:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54BD322F.1020401@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150119045501.GB29596@thunk.org>
Hi Ted,
On 01/18/2015 11:55 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> Line mode goes back to BSD 4.x days, and it's useful over high latency
> links --- i.e., the sort of thing that you get with stone age cellular
> data networks (i.e., the sort of thing that we still have the US),
> amateur packet radio links, etc. So it's certianly a nice to have, if
> someone is willing to support it and the maintenance burden on the
> rest of the tty stack isn't too onerous.
I'm not philosophically opposed to Line mode support, but I am
concerned about providing a userspace interface that's not getting tested
or used or otherwise not fit for purpose. I copied you on the other email
regarding the specific deficiencies so I won't reiterate them here.
Perhaps it's fortunate that userspace didn't pick this up; otherwise,
this interface would be cast in stone.
Regards,
Peter Hurley
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-19 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-18 21:30 [PATCH] n_tty: Remove LINEMODE support Peter Hurley
2015-01-18 22:09 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-18 22:22 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-18 22:44 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-18 23:06 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 4:55 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-01-19 16:34 ` Peter Hurley [this message]
[not found] ` <54BC3771.7030204@symas.com>
[not found] ` <54BC5EC7.1090202@hurleysoftware.com>
2015-01-19 12:46 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-19 14:57 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 16:36 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-19 19:09 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 19:43 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-20 18:02 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-20 18:39 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-20 18:51 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-20 19:08 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-20 18:16 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 20:31 ` Howard Chu
2015-01-20 14:53 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-20 17:20 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 19:40 ` Peter Hurley
2015-01-19 16:37 ` Theodore Ts'o
2015-01-19 17:26 ` Peter Hurley
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