linux-kernel - re /drivers/char/n_tty.c drops characters

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Date:	Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:32:32 +0200
From:	Denis Joseph Barrow <D.Barow@...ion.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Filip Aben <f.aben@...ion.com>,
	Andrew Bird <ajb@...eresystems.co.uk>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
Subject: re /drivers/char/n_tty.c drops characters

Hi,
There are functions tty_throttle & tty_unthrottle
called from the n_tty line discipline, it might do everything
I want it to do.

I might be plain wrong & casting asparagus about my understanding of
the n_tty & it might not drop packets
in the latest kernel.

If I'm wrong about n_tty.c & being stupid thinking the n_tty layer 
drops packets please inform me & tell me why it doesn't.

Is whats in n_tty bulletproof if used properly.
-- 
best regards,
D.J. Barrow
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