From: Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Charles Majola <chmj@rootcore.co.za>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
stephen@blacksapphire.com, benm@symmetric.co.nz,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
radek.stangel@gmsil.com
Subject: Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:37:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200606270437.59454.diablod3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1151070837.4549.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Friday 23 June 2006 09:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-06-23 am 15:21 +0200, ysgrifennodd Charles Majola:
> > Alan, can you please give me pointers on the tty changes since 2.6.12?
>
> The newest kernels have a replacement set of tty receive functions that
> use a new buffering system.
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5473
>
> covers the changes briefly. The internals of the buffering changes are
> quite complex because Paul did some rather neat things with SMP locking
> but the API is nice and simple.
>
> Its fairly easy to express the old API in terms of the new one if you
> are doing compat wrappers as well
Actually, its rather neat that something as 'simple' as tty still gets heavily
hacked on every once in awhile.
--
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"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
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listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-27 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-16 9:45 IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL Pavel Machek
2006-06-23 12:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-06-23 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-23 13:21 ` Charles Majola
2006-06-23 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-27 8:37 ` Patrick McFarland [this message]
2006-06-27 9:05 ` Ben Martel
2006-06-27 9:10 ` Charles Majola
2006-06-27 9:15 ` Pavel Machek
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