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Linux kernel developers adhere to a coding style, documented in Documentation/CodingStyle. Patches submitted to the Linux kernel, should comply with the style. The kernel tree has a Perl script scripts/checkpatch.pl that can be used for checking style violations. People who use quilt to manage their patches might find it convenient if the style checking facility is built to quilt. So for example to check the topmost patch, one would just do

It turns out this is not hard after all.

A simulated serial peripheral is generally attached to an external interface, that will act as source for receiving data and sink for trasmitted data. This article describes the internal design of Qemu, that helps to simplify the work for people writing simulations for serial peripherals.