linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 72/80] tty: fix up gigaset a bit

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:00:45 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 72/80] tty: fix up gigaset a bit

> additional test_bit(TTY_IO_ERROR, &tty->flags) would catch a case that
> would otherwise be handled incorrectly?

Fiddling with tty->disc_data by hand probably currently does the right
thing. I don't guarantee it will continue to do so after the BKL removal
gets to ldisc setting.

> So I think removing the poll method is the right thing to do. If you
> have no objections, I'll submit a patch doing just that. (Hoping to
> still make it for the .28 merge window.)

If you really don't need the poll then it can go - for 2.6.29. The
current code isn't wrong on a functional level it just returns unexpected
results in the unplug case.
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