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From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	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 08:44:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54410F19.3040607@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5440D781.1080308@suse.cz>

Hi Jiri,

On 10/17/2014 04:46 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> 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

A build warning when the macro is expanded would be best, but my
c-preprocessor-fu is terrible, so I have no idea how to make that work.

> or
> at least warn in the serial core that "current->comm is using a
> deprecated flag"_ratelimited()?

If we just print the message at TIOCSSERIAL if any of the deprecated
bits are set, that would be ok. Probably the only issue would be that
setserial could cause this message at will, so log flooding would be
a concern.

Regards,
Peter Hurley


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-17 12:44 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
2014-10-17 12:44     ` Peter Hurley [this message]
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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