On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Dave Mielke wrote: > [quoted lines by Alan Stern on 2010/08/17 at 11:04 -0400] > >I guess it would be okay for the driver to raise them automatically when > >hardware flow control is disabled and when the port is first opened, but the > >driver certainly should _not_ force them on all the time, under any > >circumstances. > > This, as you describe above, is exactly how I believe it should work. Have > there been any further thoughts on the issue? I don't mean to nag, but I trust > that the goal is to make these adapters work the same way as real serial ports > do so that their use is transparent to the user. If I understand correctly, the problem is that the ftdi_sio devices now _do_ behave like real serial ports, and this confuses programs that expect them to behave differently (as they used to). At any rate, I'm not planning on making any changes in this area. Maybe Daniel can implement the behavior you want. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
