> So let's ask the experts: what will be the preferred serial driver > framework in 2012? The tty_port code should now handle all the nasty horrible open/close/hangup logic for you. The serial midlayer uses that and is gradually shrinking into a buffering/locking helper. The goal was to *not* create yet another mid layer but to provide helpers that mid layer and driver code alike can use sensibly. So either ought to work out. 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