Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 07:43:03 +0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
        okash.khawaja@gmail.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        Kirk Reiser <kirk@reisers.ca>, Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>,
        speakup@linux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] staging: speakup: introduce tty-based comms
Message-ID: <20170313234303.GA14626@kroah.com>
References: <20170313220551.312820470@gmail.com>
 <20170313221404.GA22871@kroah.com>
 <20170313222608.pfmv37tw3badlsjw@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <20170313222608.pfmv37tw3badlsjw@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23)
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 1077
Lines: 33

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:26:08PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Greg KH, on mar. 14 mars 2017 06:14:04 +0800, wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:05:51PM +0000, okash.khawaja@gmail.com wrote:
> > > This patchset introduces a TTY-based way for the synths to communicate
> > > with devices as an alternate for direct serial comms used by the synths
> > > at the moment. It then migrates some of the synths to the TTY-based
> > > comms. Synths migrated in this patchset are dummy, acntsa, bns and
> > > txprt.
> > 
> > What about using the serbus code that is now in the tree?
> 
> I guess you mean serdev?

Sorry, yes.

> Well, for a start that didn't exist when Okash worked on the TTY part :)

Fair enough, but it has been discussed for many months now on the
linux-serial mailing list.

> > That should make this a lot easier than your patchset from what I can
> > see.
> 
> Will serdev support modem line control?  We need this for some devices.
> How is the serial port chosen with serdev?

Best asked on the linux-serial mailing list :)

thanks,

greg k-h