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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.

-- 
Patrick McFarland || www.AdTerrasPerAspera.com
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids,
we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and
listening to repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo,
Inc, 1989


  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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