I have a USB device I\'m trying to communicate with over a virtual serial port provided by the ftdi_sio kernel module. However, I\'m having some trouble setting the baud rat
You can't change baud base, I suppose it is hardware related. So messing with the module won't do you any good. In your third point you only talk about the first method proposed for setting a custom baudrate, where you need to access the tty->alt_speed. It seems there is no interface to directly set tty struct from userspace, at least not with the ftdi_sio driver.
However, there is another method explained in the comments :
* 3. You can also set baud rate by setting custom divisor as follows
* - set tty->termios->c_cflag speed to B38400
* - call TIOCSSERIAL ioctl with (struct serial_struct) set as
* follows:
* o flags & ASYNC_SPD_MASK == ASYNC_SPD_CUST
* o custom_divisor set to baud_base / your_new_baudrate
Did you try it ?