Re: [PATCH 3/3] usb console,usb-serial: pass initial console baudon to first tty open

[Alan Cox]

> It looked like the API for the tty subsystem was gradually changing such
> that the ldisc structure could ultimately get shared for use with the
> console, but this work is not complete, so we are somewhere in between.

The mechanics of this are already there. A tty drive can manage its own
termios structs, and the termios structs are pointers in the tty structure

> The question is what is an acceptable solution?

Take a look at usb_serial.c:serial_install. You can do the console state
preservation there and cleanly.

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