Re: uart_ioctl OOPS with irtty-sir

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:51:04 +0100

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 10:44:43AM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> I was tempted to create the same API for setting the speed
> (baud rate), but that may need to wait for another time.

I'm not intending changing the settermios API - it would be rather
inefficient to have a set of "set baud rate", "set stop bits",
"set bits per character", "set parity error response" etc calls,
especially when many of these involve writing the same set of
registers in the UART.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
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