Re: need to read serial data at non-standard rate (2700 baud)

Andreas Bogk (ich@andreas.org)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 22:05:50 +0200

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On Fri, Oct 23, 1998 at 09:01:00PM +0100, Ben Laurie wrote:
> Some, and I thought that included Linux, let you set the baud rate, then
> work out the divisor for themselves.

This is unfortunately untrue. You set the baud rate using an ioctl, and
you don't specify a rate, but use a set of explicit header symbols for
every supported baud rate.

Andreas

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