Re: uart_ioctl OOPS with irtty-sir

Jean Tourrilhes (jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:31:18 -0700


On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 05:51:04PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 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.

Don't worry, the current situation is workable.

Jean
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