Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-42,: Re: 921Kbps on Linux: is it possible ?!?!

# Re: 921Kbps on Linux: is it possible ?!?!

Thomas Davis (tadavis@lbl.gov)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 13:40:17 -0700

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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote:
>
> >
> > Given that getting new features into Linux 2.2 is pretty much closed at
> > this point, it's going to have to wait for Linux 2.3; and if we're going
> > to wait for Linux 2.3, I'd much rather do things right and simply move
> > to actually putting the ipseed and opseed values directly into the
> > struct termios, and then make the tcsetispeed and tcsetopseed functions
> > take arbitrary baud rates, and make B9600 be 9600, B115200 be 115200,
> > etc.
> >
> > It's the solution BSD 4.4 choose, and it really is the cleanest fix. We
> > can use glibc and symbol versioning to provide backwards compatibility
> > to handle the ABI change.
> >
> > - Ted
> >
>
> This is the way to go.
>

If someone could point me in the direction of documentation for this,
I'd be more than happy to generate a patch for it. Yes, I understand
this is 2.3 stuff, but since I'm working on creating TTY drivers for FIR
devices, might as well fix this too.. (They _really_ need this..)

Thomas

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