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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/9] serial: doc: Document .throttle()
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:39:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56E98C58.1030408@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1457968577-22379-4-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>

On 03/14/2016 08:16 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
> ---
>  Documentation/serial/driver | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/serial/driver b/Documentation/serial/driver
> index 61d520dea4c6e13a..50f3d94ed50b341e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/serial/driver
> +++ b/Documentation/serial/driver
> @@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ hardware.
>  	Interrupts: locally disabled.
>  	This call must not sleep
>  
> +  throttle(port)
> +	Notify the serial driver that input buffers for the line discipline are
> +	close to full, and it should somehow signal that no more characters
> +	should be sent to the serial port.
> +
> +	Locking: none.

While it's true that no _serial_ locking is performed, the tty core
serializes throttle() and unthrottle(), and further guarantees termios
values will not be modified concurrently with throttle()/unthrottle().


> +
>    send_xchar(port,ch)
>  	Transmit a high priority character, even if the port is stopped.
>  	This is used to implement XON/XOFF flow control and tcflow().  If
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-03-16 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-14 15:16 [PATCH 0/9] serial: doc: Low Level Serial API Documentation Improvements Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 1/9] serial: doc: Un-document non-existing uart_write_console() Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:01   ` Peter Hurley
2016-03-16 16:17     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 2/9] serial: doc: Un-document obsolete tmpbuf_sem Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:02   ` Peter Hurley
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 3/9] serial: doc: Document .throttle() Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:19   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:39   ` Peter Hurley [this message]
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 4/9] serial: doc: Document .unthrottle() Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 5/9] serial: doc: Document .set_ldisc() Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:49   ` Peter Hurley
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 6/9] serial: doc: .break_ctl() is called with port->mutex() held Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-16 16:46   ` Peter Hurley
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 7/9] serial: doc: Spelling s/divsor/divisor/ Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 8/9] serial: doc: Grammar s/function are/functions are/ Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-14 15:16 ` [PATCH 9/9] serial: doc: Correct return type of mctrl_gpio_to_gpiod() Geert Uytterhoeven
2016-03-31  6:59 ` [PATCH 0/9] serial: doc: Low Level Serial API Documentation Improvements Jonathan Corbet
2016-03-31  8:26   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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