From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: Correct tty buffer flushing. Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 21:28:09 +0000 Message-ID: <20121129212809.5bc12088@bob.linux.org.uk> References: <50B55A93.4090900@ilyx.ru> <50B6A652.9000107@ilyx.ru> <20121129135418.4237e7f8@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> <50B76D96.20809@ilyx.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga14.intel.com ([143.182.124.37]:34139 "EHLO mga14.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754725Ab2K2VZm (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2012 16:25:42 -0500 In-Reply-To: <50B76D96.20809@ilyx.ru> Sender: linux-serial-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org To: Ilya Zykov Cc: Alan Cox , Xiaobing Tu , Jiri Slaby , Alek Du , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org > Sorry, In you reply not all patch. > Main idea here - we never flash last (struct tty_buffer) in the > active buffer. Only data for ldisc. (tty->buf.head->read = > tty->buf.head->commit). At that moment driver can collect(write) data > in buffer without conflict. Ah.. now I understand. Yes that makes sense. I will think about that carefully. This is why a good explanation with a patch is important.