HAL and legacy serial ports, modems, ppp interfaces

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Wed Jan 19 07:14:16 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:19 +0200, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Do we have right now HAL support for 
> legacy serial ports

No, but we want that when the kernel exports this in sysfs.

> modems

USB, PCI, Cardbus and PCMCIA modems, sure; I expect it's just
a serial port plus maybe a bit more information.

> IR,

If this is only a serial port plus a bit more (like "someone
is trying to sync with you" messages), then sure.

> ISDN, irda and ppp interfaces

Pretty sure we don't want PPP; it's been discussed earlier,
see the archives.

Cheers,
David


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