Re: serial port & ldisc: need help

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
01 Nov 2002 17:14:26 +0000

On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 16:48, Romain Lievin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need informations about line disciplines (what are they, how to use them)...
>
> Is there anyone who could explain this to me ?
> Or, is there any doc/book about this subject ?

I've seen no good documentation on this one. The ldisc is basically the
glue between the serial layer and whatever is above

So its

/dev/ttyFOO --- [LDISC] --- Serial

or

/dev/ttyFOO -----}
ppp0 ---------}--[LDISC] -- Serial

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