"Tosoni" <jp.tosoni@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > The reality is: the need exists, it does not break the driver, other OSs > support it, Linux does not, I personally wrote support for it in the > existing 8250 driver, other people wrote similar code in similar Linux > drivers. > > But for some reason maintainers did not want to hear about this work. So I > must reinsert it over and over again with each new version of the kernel. > </sigh> Some link to archives maybe? I don't think I've seen your code. Perhaps you should post the code again? Cc to the maintainer and lkml wouldn't hurt. > What I talk about, is a way to toggle RTS > around transmit data with acceptable delays. This can only reside in the > serial driver, not in a line discipline. Of course. > I do not want to remove the existing behaviour for RTS, I want to add a > optional "new" one to handle the original standard, and I do believe that I > am not alone to need this. That is quite possible, though the normal way of getting things included into the kernel is posting a patch, getting comments, perhaps fixing problems, posting again, until it's accepted. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
