From: Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:09:43 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811201446380.21561@lxtpfaff.pcs.ditec.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081120131726.2636b559@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:06:19 +0100 (CET)
> Thomas Pfaff <tpfaff@pcs.com> wrote:
>
> > I have written a program that reads and writes data to the serial uart using
> > async io.
> > Unfortunately it does not work properly because a SIGIO is never gerated when
> > output becomes possible, the reason is that TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP is not set for
> > most of the tty drivers. After i set the bit in serial_core.c the program works
> > as expected.
> > Now i wonder why TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP is almost always disabled ?
>
> Almost nobody uses SIGIO based I/O, especially on serial so I'm not
> actually suprised by this one. If you've got patches that fix it then
> please send them in.
Is the TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP bit some kind of cruft that can be removed entirely
or should i generate a patch for serial devices only ?
Removing it seems to be cleaner to me but i am unsure if it will break some
other stuff.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 10:06 Thomas Pfaff
2008-11-20 13:17 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20 14:09 ` Thomas Pfaff [this message]
2008-11-20 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20 15:12 ` Thomas Pfaff
2008-11-20 15:55 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20 16:39 ` Thomas Pfaff
2008-11-20 16:47 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20 16:58 ` Alan Cox
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