Re: cat, cp operations for tty driver (like for char one)

From: Mockern
Date: Fri Feb 16 2007 - 10:29:20 EST


Thank you very much


>On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Mockern wrote:
>
>> Thanx for your respond.
>>
>> Does it mean I have to change nothing in my tty driver
>> (based on serial_core.c) to use: cat and cp? No "nonstandard " special
>> functions to implement?
>>
>
>Change nothing. It you are making your own, make sure your iocl() function
>returns the same kinds of errors as the in-kernel one.
>
>You can check out the existing in-kernel driver as:
>
>strace cp filename /dev/ttyS0
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Mockern wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a question about linux tty driver
>>>>
>>>> how to support cp, cat operations in tty driver (like tiny_tty)?
>>>> (e.g. echo "hello tty" > /dev/ttyS3, cat < ttyS10 etc)
>>>>
>>>> There a lot of examples with char drivers, but I could not find it for tty Linux driver.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It works out of the box. Just keep hardware flow-control turned off
>>> if there are no receivers connected to the output port. Also, you need
>>> to set up the port's baud-rate and (usually) to make it transparent to
>>> control characters (man tc-get/set-attr).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dick Johnson
>>> Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.61 BogoMips).
>>> New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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>>> Thank you.
>>
>>
>
>Cheers,
>Dick Johnson
>Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5594.84 BogoMips).
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