linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: Lay the foundations for the next set of reworks

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Message-ID: <47FC68EC.40602@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:57:48 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	akpm@...l.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Hardwick <p.hardwick@...ion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty/serial: Lay the foundations for the next set of reworks

On 04/09/2008 12:13 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>> Well, how exactly the card behaves on 1 byte write? And how did the .write 
>> protect against it?
> 
> One byte writes work fine via the write path and already occur. 

I guessed so, because there is no protection against one byte writes in .write.

> I suspect
> the original author forgot to turn echo off and saw fun things happening
> between the inbuilt modem emulation and the Linux side.

He was Cced, I hope he'll make things clear :).
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