From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751245AbWF0Ife (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:35:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751287AbWF0Ife (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:35:34 -0400 Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.184.233]:41297 "EHLO wr-out-0506.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751245AbWF0Ifd (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:35:33 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=rbnRXK5Suim5QDqRF+q7PLZuDy0nop7gUi/PW8ckfszqvSWRd5WY3FX7wdZl9L5UYVj+529kVDrj+I1YQm9g2ItTvEj+2NDSyZgMbT4j0/G61SeoykBU0A1BKDbuK44rgsvHNt6BFm2WUYWa2sue4I2CuckS2o3WSJXTBwXgE9g= From: Patrick McFarland To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:37:57 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Charles Majola , Pavel Machek , stephen@blacksapphire.com, benm@symmetric.co.nz, kernel list , radek.stangel@gmsil.com References: <20060616094516.GA3432@elf.ucw.cz> <449BEABD.5010305@rootcore.co.za> <1151070837.4549.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1151070837.4549.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606270437.59454.diablod3@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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