Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 8250 serial console fixes -- issue | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Sun, 05 Feb 2006 00:54:51 +0100 |
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Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
> CRTSCTS is to enable RTS/CTS hardware handshaking for the tty, which > is what the modem wants if it is doing hardware handshaking.
Yes. But a Hayes modem wants a bit more than just RTS/CTS handshaking.
> Why > should we invent a non-standard option to enable RTS/CTS hardware > handshaking when CRTSCTS is already defined to do this?
That's not my idea.
If we want to support modems (Hayes-compatible) we need to make sure, in addition to CRTSCTS, that we don't send anything when DCD (or DSR) is down - and then we probably need another option.
BTW I think you know all of this very well for years. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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