Re: what serial driver restructure is planned?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:21:44AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> It basically started out by pulling 65K worth of the duplicated code out
> of various serial drivers.  Its currently moving towards allowing the
> input layer to talk to serial devices (needed for things like iPAQ
> keyboards and IrDA-based keyboards), as well as allowing things like
> USB serial devices to use the core code.

Could we also have an interface to serial devices which bypass the tty
layer?  Ie a /dev/ttyraw* which just speaks to the serial port without
going through the labyrinthine tty layers?

This would need to keep some basic ioctls for changing baud rate etc.

9 times out of 10 when I reach for /dev/ttyS* that is all I want and
the tty layer is just wasteful and gets in the way of a conceptually
very simple device.

> Some people would also like to see a "serial major" where all serial
> devices live.

Gets my vote.

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