> Comtrol, Moxa, B&B, Sealevel, and others all sell PCI cards and > Ethernet attached serial ports that have selectable interfaces > (typically RS-232/422/485). Comtrol and Moxa have had drivers in the > kernel tree for ages, but they've always had to use custom ioctl calls > for things like configuring 232/485/422 mode and half/full-duplex > mode. Ok so what is needed that isn't covered by the current termiox and TIOCG/SRS485 ioctls ? > Having a standard API for things like interface mode, half-full > duplex, inter-character timeout, 9-bit mode, and so on would be life a > lot easier for those of us who maintain Linux serial drivers... 9bit mode is a real problem with the tty layer defined in terms of 8bit streams but yes. -- 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
