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[PATCH] remove TTY_DONT_FLIP

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Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag.  This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels
to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and
n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time.  2.2.15 introduced
tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the
only state requiring protection between these two functions.

The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not
universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line
discipline receive_buf function.

Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is
not universally honored, it is removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Paul Fulghum
2006-06-28 04:26:47 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e0ac4761fa
commit 817d6d3bce
9 changed files with 7 additions and 42 deletions
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@ -259,7 +259,6 @@ struct tty_struct {
#define TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP 5 /* Call write_wakeup after queuing new */
#define TTY_PUSH 6 /* n_tty private */
#define TTY_CLOSING 7 /* ->close() in progress */
#define TTY_DONT_FLIP 8 /* Defer buffer flip */
#define TTY_LDISC 9 /* Line discipline attached */
#define TTY_HW_COOK_OUT 14 /* Hardware can do output cooking */
#define TTY_HW_COOK_IN 15 /* Hardware can do input cooking */