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Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:54:26 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 16/33] isdn/gigaset: reset tty->receive_room when
 attaching ser_gigaset

On 09/21/2015 09:38 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Am 21.09.2015 um 15:13 schrieb Peter Hurley:
>> On 09/18/2015 08:38 AM, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>>> Am 17.09.2015 um 20:13 schrieb Peter Hurley:
>>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
> [...]
>>>>> - The requirement for line disciplines to set receive_room wasn't (and
>>>>> btw still isn't) documented anywhere, so it's unlikely anything actively
>>>>> relied on it.
>>>>
>>>> Nevertheless, that is the requirement, and what every other in-tree line
>>>> discipline does.
>>>
>>> Your word for it. Still I don't understand the curious resistance to
>>> documenting it. If it is the requirement, why keep it secret?
>>
>> Nothing sinister here :)
>>
>> Feel free to submit documentation patches.
> 
> I already did. For some unknown reason nobody wants to merge them.

I vaguely recall that. A quick search reminded me there were unaddressed
comments wrt that patch:  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/14/608

Regards,
Peter Hurley

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