Re: [parisc-linux] 3 Serial issues up for discussion (was: Re: Serial core problems on embedded PPC)

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 04:53:51PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> 2. USB devices want "packets" of data to write rather than the ring-
>    buffer we currently use for UARTs.

The driver could be changed to handle a ring buffer, if it's too tough.
As long as it's ok to grab a very large chunk of data out of the ring
buffer all at once :)

Time to look at the serial changes more closely...

thanks,

greg k-h