ot memory allocation question

covici at ccs.covici.com covici at ccs.covici.com
Fri Jul 19 11:26:14 EDT 2013


What  is a tty line discipline?  Lets figure this out and do it -- ask
the kernel people for some documentation if necessary.

Chris Brannon <chris at the-brannons.com> wrote:

> covici at ccs.covici.com writes:
> 
> > So could we use this inspeakup to write and read from a serial device --
> > thus circumventing most of our serial problems?
> 
> No.  We discussed this several years ago, and we concluded that it won't
> work.  It's pretty much infeasible to use the tty devices (/dev/ttyS*)
> from kernel space.  That discussion might be available in the list
> archives.  I've been told that the solution to our serial problems in
> Speakup is to write a tty line discipline.  I don't really understand
> how to do it.
> 
> -- Chris
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