serial class and usb-serial bus support

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Mon Sep 20 11:11:42 PDT 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 19:32 +0200, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:01 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > Here is the missing support for USB-serial ports. We create an usb-
> > serial bus device and merge the serial class device into it.
> > 
> 
> Cool.

Commit?

> And legacy serial ports will follow? :-)

Yes, but it will take its time, cause I don't want to make the
"platform" hack we currently have with the floppy. I'll try to 
fix the kernel to export that. But then, yes :)

> I don't have any hardware like this; I'm curious if USB modems look
> exactly like this.

I expect, that most of the modems are "Communication Device Class (CDC)"
devices and not serial ports.

Thanks,
Kay

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