Status of kernel

Okash Khawaja okash.khawaja at gmail.com
Sat Nov 12 11:13:22 EST 2016


On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Samuel Thibault <
samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org> wrote:

> Okash Khawaja, on Sat 12 Nov 2016 15:20:48 +0000, wrote:
> > What do you expect to be the outcome of this serial comms re-work?
>
> Which serial comms re-work are you talking about? I don't know about
> David's work. What I was mentioning was to get some interface
> integrated to the kernel to access kernel comm ports properly, i.e.
> basically an equivalent of open("/dev/ttyS0"), which can thus be used
> for usb and pci too.
>
> Samuel
>

Not sure if David's work involves changes to serial. I did cursory checks
and diffed serialio.c which didn't seem much different.

Could you explain your idea a bit more? I have been reading the driver code
and want to contribute to this project.


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