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| author |   Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> | 2007-05-08 00:24:21 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-08 11:14:59 -0700 |
| commit | 6309ed7cb2b0671b0db9386abc6307ec3108bbaa (patch) | |
| tree | b310c894dc328348b82b6fce109a686ff55abe2c /Documentation/tty.txt | |
| parent | devpts: add fsnotify create event (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-6309ed7cb2b0671b0db9386abc6307ec3108bbaa.tar.xz linux-dev-6309ed7cb2b0671b0db9386abc6307ec3108bbaa.zip | |
tty: Clarify documentation of ->write()
The tty driver write method is different to the usual fops device write
methods as the buffer is already in kernel space. Clarify the docs since
someone writing a driver made that mistake.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/tty.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/tty.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/tty.txt b/Documentation/tty.txt index 5f799e612e03..048a8762cfb5 100644 --- a/Documentation/tty.txt +++ b/Documentation/tty.txt @@ -108,7 +108,9 @@ hardware driver through the function pointers within the tty->driver structure: write() Write a block of characters to the tty device. - Returns the number of characters accepted. + Returns the number of characters accepted. The + character buffer passed to this method is already + in kernel space. put_char() Queues a character for writing to the tty device. If there is no room in the queue, the character is |