On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 11:43:13AM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> No, I was wondering if leaving the USB serial major 18[89] alone would
> be a better idea. Since posting, I've been thinking that the usb
> serial driver presents the same interface to the tty layer as any
> other serial device so I guess it's not a bad idea.
To be able to suck in USB (and some of the other drivers), two changes
need to be made to the core:
1. the change_speed method needs to be handled differently; we currently
assume a UART-style implementation here. We need to change this
around before 2.6 anyway for ports which don't support all the
termios settings (SuSv3 requires that any unimplemented features
retain their original values, so for example if we don't have RTS
and CTS lines on a particular implementation, CRTSCTS should be
initially off and not turn on-able.)
2. USB devices want "packets" of data to write rather than the ring-
buffer we currently use for UARTs.
(time to start ebaying for USB serial devices...)
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