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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
To: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -next 05/10] tty: Document defunct ASYNC_* bits in uapi header
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 10:46:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5440D781.1080308@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1413492867-20679-6-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com>

On 10/16/2014, 10:54 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> Note the serial_struct flags for which the kernel ignores and performs
> no action. The flags cannot be removed since they form part of the
> userspace interface via the TIOCSSERIAL/TIOCGSERIAL ioctls.

Hello,

would it make sense to mark them deprecated somehow? At build time, or
at least warn in the serial core that "current->comm is using a
deprecated flag"_ratelimited()?

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-17  8:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-16 20:54 [PATCH -next 00/10] serial core fixes Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 01/10] serial: Refactor uart_flush_buffer() from uart_close() Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 02/10] serial: core: Flush ldisc after dropping port mutex in uart_close() Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 03/10] serial: Fix locking for uart driver set_termios() method Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 04/10] tty,serial: Unify UPF_* and ASYNC_* flag definitions Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 05/10] tty: Document defunct ASYNC_* bits in uapi header Peter Hurley
2014-10-17  8:46   ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2014-10-17 12:44     ` Peter Hurley
2014-10-17 13:31       ` Jiri Slaby
2014-11-06  2:53         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 06/10] serial: core: Unwrap >80 char line in uart_close() Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 07/10] serial: core: Remove redundant timeout assignments Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 08/10] serial: core: Colocate crucial structure linkage Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 09/10] serial: core: Remove extra locking in uart_write() Peter Hurley
2014-10-16 20:54 ` [PATCH -next 10/10] serial: core: Fix port count when uart_open() errors Peter Hurley

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