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SubjectRe: The Serial Layer
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:49:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Is anyone currently looking at fixing this before I start applying
> extreme violence ? In particular to start trying to do something about
> the races in TIOCSTI, line discipline setting, hangup v receive, drivers
> abusing the API and calling ldisc.receive_buf direct ?

I'm certainly not delving into the TTY layers itself - there's far
too many drivers which would break horribly if I were to do that.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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