On Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:58:20 -0400 Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply > > never going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take > > the problem away from them and give them a simple interface to do > > the job. > > Btw, I wonder if all the standard tty ioctls should get similar > treatment. That way we have a nice enough skeleton of what needs to > be implemented in every tty driver instead of passing down the raw > ioctl method. They have pretty much entirely now - TIOCMIWAIT is the main one that hasn't been done, but that really wants a generic implementation in tty_port that most drivers could then use. Alan -- 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
