From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Persistent problem with wait_until_sent timeout parameter type mismatch
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 14:33:48 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h78psc$9be$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: h6muja$6ol$1@ger.gmane.org
On 2009-08-21, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
> I seem to have run into a problem which people have been
> pointing out for years, but never gets fixed.
>
> In tty_driver.h, the low-level driver routine wait_until_set()
> function takes an "int" as a timeout value:
[...]
> But, in tty_ioclt.c in the tty_wait_unti_sent() function, the
> timeout is a "long":
[...]
> This is fine on 32-bit systems, where "int" and "long" are
> equivalent, but it results in breakage on 64-bit systems.
Is this not the correct forum in which to report bugs in the
tty layer code?
--
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2009-08-21 20:03 Persistent problem with wait_until_sent timeout parameter type mismatch Grant Edwards
2009-08-28 14:33 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2009-09-16 5:57 ` Grant Edwards
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