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Re: Doubt in implementing serial driver!

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:50:38PM +0530, Mandeep Singh Sandhu wrote:
> 
> In the context of a serial driver what is the significance of the
> TERMIOS struct??

It controls all of the line settings.

> If a person wanted to write his own serial port driver would he be
> required to implement the TTY layer as well (as it is implemented by
> tty_io.c in th Linux sources)??

Yes.  But why would you want to do that?  Do you have some wierd serial
port hardware that Linux doesn't support?

thanks,

greg k-h
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