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| author | Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> | 2006-06-28 04:26:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-28 14:59:05 -0700 |
| commit | 817d6d3bceaf34c99f5343820f9b9e6021f0655c (patch) | |
| tree | 651104833124262db46c2a372b7adb55289cd8dd /drivers/char/pty.c | |
| parent | e0ac4761fa52acda90f9f53819c81474b511e3af (diff) | |
| download | linux-817d6d3bceaf34c99f5343820f9b9e6021f0655c.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] remove TTY_DONT_FLIP
Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag. This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels
to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and
n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time. 2.2.15 introduced
tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the
only state requiring protection between these two functions.
The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not
universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line
discipline receive_buf function.
Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is
not universally honored, it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/pty.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/pty.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/pty.c b/drivers/char/pty.c index 9b5a2c0e7008..0c17f61549b4 100644 --- a/drivers/char/pty.c +++ b/drivers/char/pty.c @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ static void pty_unthrottle(struct tty_struct * tty) * * FIXME: Our pty_write method is called with our ldisc lock held but * not our partners. We can't just take the other one blindly without - * risking deadlocks. There is also the small matter of TTY_DONT_FLIP + * risking deadlocks. */ static int pty_write(struct tty_struct * tty, const unsigned char *buf, int count) { |