Re: Bogus serialP.h patch?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:07:10 +0000 (GMT)


> If that's all they really need out of serialP.h, then perhaps that 10
> lines of code should just be included into that driver's .c file instead
> of put in a public header file. I'm *really* nervous about that, since

We still have all the ioctls to fix from lack of shared code. So it
definitely has tradeoffs both ways

> Eventually, we can talk about ways of making the tty layer have more
> support for this kind of thing, so that (for example) async_icounter is
> in the struct tty, and the ioctl handling is done in tty_ioctl.c. The
> difference is, that would be a cleanly implemented change. What we're

That to me makes a hell of a lot more sense.

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