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Re: A simpler tty driver model



Hiya Matt,

On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 11:52:20PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote:
> I have several SoC targets that I've stalled on due to the need of writing
> a tty driver.  Sure I could cut & paste from another driver but having to
> do that 3+ times seems inordinately stupid.  So I've been thinking of 
> making that c&p'ed code into a common tty driver and exporting a small of
> h/w specific functions.
> 
>       int (*t_enable)(void *);        // powerup device
>       int (*t_disable)(void *);       // powerdown device
>       int (*t_detach)(void *);        // detach device
...
> 
> I would like to be able to make the h/w driver < 200 lines if possible.
> This is only a rough guess at what it would take.

What happened to this idea? Have you ever managed to start with it? Even if
just sideways to the other non-converted way?

With regards,
Reinoud

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