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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: "Russell King" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	"Roland Caßebohm" <roland.cassebohm@VisionSystems.de>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Serial driver hangs
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 23:12:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1096409562.14082.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096412582.6003.8.camel@at2.pipehead.org>

On Mer, 2004-09-29 at 00:03, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> The alternative is to implement a flow control
> mechanism between the flip buffer layer and
> the tty drivers to (at the very least)
> enable/disable receive interrupts.

We have throttle()/unthrottle(). Drivers also know if they can't
push data.

> Since the flip buffer implementation is probably
> going to need rework anyways (eventually) along
> with the other tty locking issues, this may not
> be a trivial task.

TTY_DONT_FLIP has to die. It's already broken for many cases.
Its basically a nasty quickfix someone did ages ago


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-29  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-28 15:34 Serial driver hangs Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-28 21:10 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-28 21:16   ` Russell King
2004-09-28 23:03     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-28 22:12       ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-09-29  1:12         ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 13:09           ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-29 13:17             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 14:07               ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-29 14:25                 ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 16:16                   ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-09-30 19:09                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 18:34                       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 19:51                         ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 19:59                           ` Russell King
2004-09-30 20:05                             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 20:30                               ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-30 20:10                                 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-30 21:25                                   ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01  0:47                                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 15:22                                     ` Roland Caßebohm
2004-10-01 16:06                                       ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 20:13                                   ` Stuart MacDonald
2004-10-01 20:36                                     ` Paul Fulghum
2004-09-29 14:13             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-10-01 15:25               ` Roland Caßebohm

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