Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758864AbZGHWif (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:38:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754809AbZGHWi2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:38:28 -0400 Received: from 136-022.dsl.LABridge.com ([206.117.136.22]:4178 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754626AbZGHWi1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jul 2009 18:38:27 -0400 Subject: Re: good example of a tty driver From: Joe Perches To: Greg KH , Eng.Linux@digi.com, "Kilau, Scott" Cc: Alan Cox , Kumar Gala , Linux-Kernel List In-Reply-To: <20090702183149.GA11720@kroah.com> References: <20090702192744.029620ae@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20090702183149.GA11720@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:38:07 -0700 Message-Id: <1247092687.25028.23.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 11:31 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 07:27:44PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 11:48:09 -0500 > > Kumar Gala wrote: > > > Thankfully the have a GPL driver but it was last updated against 2.6.23: > > > http://www.connectivity.avocent.com/drivers/esp_serial_hubs/dd64e069.asp > > > However I've never worked on any tty drivers so its a bit black magic > > > at this point. I was hoping that an example would at least get me > > > able to bring the driver up to a point that we can get it into the > > > staging tree. > > I would make it build, chuck it in the staging tree and go from there > That sounds good to me as well. Kumar, feel free to send me a patch :) I was playing around the the digi dgap driver which is out of tree. Scott, do you or Digi have any objections in putting the dgap driver into staging as well? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/