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authorPaul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>2006-06-28 04:26:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-28 14:59:05 -0700
commit817d6d3bceaf34c99f5343820f9b9e6021f0655c (patch)
tree651104833124262db46c2a372b7adb55289cd8dd /drivers/char/pty.c
parente0ac4761fa52acda90f9f53819c81474b511e3af (diff)
downloadlinux-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.c2
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)
{