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On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net> wrote: > > > > The rest of the kernel treats tty->driver->chars_in_buffer as a possible > > NULL. This patch changes normal_poll() to be consistent with the rest of > > the code. > > It would be better to change the rest of the kernel - remove the tests. > > If any driver fails to implement ->chars_in_buffer() then we get a nice > oops which tells us that driver needs a stub handler. Are you sure that it won't affect the logic in tty_wait_until_sent() drastically? It acts quite differently when ->chars_in_buffer == NULL. -- Dan Aloni da-x@colinux.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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