> While I can agree on making Linux stuff less fatty, I can't agree on > doing this way. We have for now two subsystems to serve for serial > devices, you are proposing third one for only narrow class of devices. It should be actually most (all?) real serial ones. > From my point of view is better to achive your goal with existing > system (as a proof of concept maybe even with ugly #ifdef:fery). I like the idea of mintty (if it supported ptys). Except for that (and possibly VT) it is unlikely that people really rely on the obsolete terminal features from the 70ies. So it's a kind of cleanup. -Andi -- 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