David Wright wrote: > Perhaps there's some history here. I installed Debian 1.3 on a 1997 > pentium and setserial -a /dev/ttyS? all say that baud_base is 115200 > and Flags: spd_normal... > Both mgetty and minicom will satisfactorily handle 115200, so all this > messing with spd_vhi seems to be a thing of the past. Presumably, by now, > any software that can't ask for >38400 should have a bug report filed > against it.
Unless you care about POSIX compliance. IIRC baud_base and whatever's the option to specify divisor allow you to use any clock frequency on your serial port -- as long as hardware supports it. Very neat, but non-POSIX. Which means if software relies on it, it's not POSIX compliant. Conversely, software that asks for 38400 is POSIX compliant and (hopefully) portable. So, you're suggesting that POSIX compliance is a bug, and so is portability :-) -- well, not exactly: that absence of non-standard and non-portable features is a bug. Just kidding -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au Please CC to me when replying to Usenet or a list -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .