Re: speed_t usage?

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On Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 01:50:56PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Recently while doing some serial driver cleanup I realised that TTY uses
> speed_t type for baud rates. What is the appropriate use of it?
> Either it is going to be killed (replaced with POD), or should / may we
> spread it over tty/serial and further?

As it's a uapi interface we can't just delete it entirely, but please,
do not spread it any further, and try to clean up what places in the
kernel itself that we can to use a "real" type that we know the size of
at all times (i.e. u32/u64), not just having to guess like we do today.

thanks,

greg k-h




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