Ulises: AS far as I know. The normal serial driver should do the work. You only have to match the Bar Code REader and the serial interface. Regards On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 12:41, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 01:35:17PM -0300, Ulises wrote: > > Hi All, > > I'm starting to develop a serial driver for a Bar Code Reader. > > Why do you need a new one? Doesn't the kernel serial driver work for > you? > > > My questions is: Which is the relationship between the tty driver and > > the uart driver? > > A uart driver controls the hardware, which talks to the serial core, > which talks to the tty layer (the serial core is a tty driver). > > > For instance, take a look of serial_core.c > > (http://lxr.linux.no/source/drivers/serial/serial_core.c#L2059).Both are > > related but I cannot understand the relationship and which one you > > should use in which case. > > To register a serial device driver should I use: tty_register_driver() > > or uart_register_driver ? > > Depends on what exactly your hardware looks like. If it is a uart like > chip, use the serial core. Otherwise, use the tty core. But I'm really > supprised that we don't support your device already, what kind is it? > > 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/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
