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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: The Serial Layer
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:16:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907211634.D15295@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094582980.9750.12.camel@localhost.localdomain>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:49:42PM +0100

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:49:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Is anyone currently looking at fixing this before I start applying
> extreme violence ? In particular to start trying to do something about
> the races in TIOCSTI, line discipline setting, hangup v receive, drivers
> abusing the API and calling ldisc.receive_buf direct ?

I'm certainly not delving into the TTY layers itself - there's far
too many drivers which would break horribly if I were to do that.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-07 20:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-07 18:49 The Serial Layer Alan Cox
2004-09-07 20:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-09-07 19:14   ` Alan Cox
2004-09-09 12:57     ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-09 16:28       ` Alan Cox
2004-09-10 14:32         ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-10 15:21           ` Alan Cox
2004-09-07 20:16 ` Russell King [this message]
2004-09-12  3:01 ` David Eger
2004-09-12 15:25   ` Alan Cox

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