linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] staging: speakup: introduce tty-based comms

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Message-ID: <20170313222608.pfmv37tw3badlsjw@var.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr>
Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2017 23:26:08 +0100
From:   Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     okash.khawaja@...il.com, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Kirk Reiser <kirk@...sers.ca>,
        Chris Brannon <chris@...-brannons.com>,
        speakup@...ux-speakup.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] staging: speakup: introduce tty-based comms

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@...il.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?

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

> 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?

Samuel