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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 13:38:21 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Patrick van de Lageweg <patrick@bitwizard.nl>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Rogier Wolff <wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for
> > the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers
> > in user space.
> 
> Good, someone finally implemented this. This is going to be mandatory
> if we want to support winmodems properly; also ISDN people might be
> interested [to kick AT emulation out of kernel].

For winmodems you can do a pretty good job with ptys -- the pty and tty
side access the same share termios structure.  The new driver is a
much cleaner way to the same functionality though.  (Conceptually; I
looked at the API summary but haven't looked at the code).

-- Jamie
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