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From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial/uart: Add tunable RX interrupt trigger I/F of FIFO buffers
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 15:37:48 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140217153748.513230fb@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52FDD470.7000607@hitachi.com>

> #define TIOCSFIFORTRIG    _IOW('T', 0x41, unsigned char)
> 
> > Also, why pass a pointer to a variable, and not just the value itself?
> 
> Ah, it's no big reason.
> It will pass just the value itself in V2.

We don't need ioctls here - we have a sysfs interface we can expand to do
this. We also need proper locking. This isn't a trivial change but its
perfectly doable given a real world use case.

> According to a manual of setserial command, we could set RX interrupt
> trigger only for the Hayes ESP serial driver. However, current kernel
> does not support Hayes ESP serial[1]. I couldn't find this feature for
> current 8250/16X50 drivers.

It is long gone and was a set of ugly device specific hacks.

Alan

      reply	other threads:[~2014-02-17 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-06  2:16 Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-02-13 18:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-02-14  8:31   ` Yoshihiro YUNOMAE
2014-02-17 15:37     ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]

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