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Message-Id: <20071107.012906.171422435.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:29:06 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3]: tty - fix network driver interactions with
TCGET/SET calls
From: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:33:29 +0000
> Dave Miller noted various cases where line disciplines for things like
> ppp go poking around in termios themselves in ways that broke with the
> new termios code. Rather than have them all learning about termios
> internals provide proper methods for this
>
> - tty_mode_ioctl()
>
> This handles all the terminal mode handling for speed/carrier etc
> and none of the methods are ldisc dependant so they can be called by any
> user
>
> - tty_perform_flush()
>
> This extracts the flush functionality and enables pppd the ppp
> layer to share it cleanly.
>
>
> The existing n_tty_ioctl code is refactored in this patch to provide the
> new functions and to call them itself appropriately. This patch has no
> (intended) behaviour changes and simply prepares for the other fixes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
Patch applied.
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