linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: ark3116.c: Remove unused TIOCSSERIAL case from ioctl

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Date:   Wed, 13 Dec 2017 15:30:27 +0300
From:   Mikhail Zaytsev <flashed@...l.ru>
To:     Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: ark3116.c: Remove unused TIOCSSERIAL case
 from ioctl

On Wed, 13 Dec 2017 12:40:48 +0100 Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com> wrote:

> They give you nothing. If you are looking at a vendor ID nothing but the
> bare number makes sense. You are just making peoples' life harder when
> they have to look up that definition. A symbolic name is fine if it gives
> meaning. Even if the information you give is that the value is magic
> and therefore not understood. But a vendor ID is an arbitrary yet
> meaningful number. There is no point in hiding it.

Thanks. I hear you, Oliver. What about:

-		serstruct.baud_base = 460800;

Is it a magic number? I think yes.

-- 
Mikhail