Re: TTY changes to 2.1.65

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Mon, 24 Nov 1997 08:46:34 -0800 (PST)

On Mon, 24 Nov 1997 tytso@mit.edu wrote:
>
> The following patches fix a few bugs in the serial driver, as
> well as starts a process of taking common functionality which is being
> done in each tty low-level driver, and moves it up to the high-level tty
> driver. The strategy which is followed is much like the one followed by
> the SCSI layer --- there are high-level functions which handle the
> common case which are available to the low-level driver, but each
> low-level driver is always free to do its own thing if it needs to do so
> for some reason.

Applied, expect to see this in 2.1.66,

Linus