hello all, i am writing a serial device driver. i came across an article on linux journal that stated regrding tty and serial programming. however i am not understanding why the structure termios is required. any pointers in this direction ? also i wuld like to know more about serial device drivers. thanks in advance rahul -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/