From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
greg@kroah.com, drosenberg@vsecurity.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 11:58:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100918155820.GA3942@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never
> going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem
> away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job.
Btw, I wonder if all the standard tty ioctls should get similar
treatment. That way we have a nice enough skeleton of what needs to be
implemented in every tty driver instead of passing down the raw ioctl
method.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-18 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-16 17:21 [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] tty: Make tiocgicount a handler Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] tty: Convert the USB drivers to the new icount interface Alan Cox
2010-09-16 17:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] tty: icount changeover for other main devices Alan Cox
2010-09-16 18:44 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good Greg KH
2010-09-16 22:01 ` Alan Cox
2010-09-17 4:56 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 17:01 ` Greg KH
2010-09-18 15:58 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-09-20 8:31 ` Alan Cox
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20100918155820.GA3942@infradead.org \
--to=hch@infradead.org \
--cc=alan@linux.intel.com \
--cc=drosenberg@vsecurity.com \
--cc=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-serial@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.