[patch 6/6] staging: speakup: Migrate acntsa, bns, dectlk and txprt to ttyio

[Okash Khawaja]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 03:59:30AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Concerning speakup_apollo.c, it seems its only use of outb is to control
> the modem RTS line. To support that, yet another step will be:
> 
> - introduce spk_serial_tiocmset(unsigned int set, unsigned int clear),
>   which does:
> 
>   int old = inb(speakup_info.port_tts + UART_MCR);
>   outb((old & ~clear) | set, speakup_info.port_tts + UART_MCR);
> 
> - introduce spk_ttyio_tiocmset(unsigned int set, unsigned int clear),
>   which does:
> 
>   speakup_tty->ops->tiocmset(speakup_tty, set, clear);
> 
> and make them a tiocmset method of synths.
> 
> and then in speakup_apollo.c, instead of 
> 
> 	outb(UART_MCR_DTR, speakup_info.port_tts + UART_MCR);
> 	outb(UART_MCR_DTR | UART_MCR_RTS,
> 			speakup_info.port_tts + UART_MCR);

Is there a specific reason for keeping DTR set all the time? Or is it
just a defensive measure?

> 
> rather use
> 
> 	synth->tiocmset(0, UART_MCR_RTS);
> 	synth->tiocmset(UART_MCR_RTS, 0);
> 
> Samuel