On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:50:38PM +0530, Mandeep Singh Sandhu wrote: > > In the context of a serial driver what is the significance of the > TERMIOS struct?? It controls all of the line settings. > If a person wanted to write his own serial port driver would he be > required to implement the TTY layer as well (as it is implemented by > tty_io.c in th Linux sources)?? Yes. But why would you want to do that? Do you have some wierd serial port hardware that Linux doesn't support? thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/