From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268590AbUIGU1m (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:27:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268582AbUIGU1M (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:27:12 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([212.18.232.186]:13831 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268650AbUIGUQj (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 16:16:39 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:16:34 +0100 From: Russell King To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: The Serial Layer Message-ID: <20040907211634.D15295@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Alan Cox , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <1094582980.9750.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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