serial: Refactor uart_flush_buffer() from uart_close()

In the context of the final tty & port close, flushing the tx
ring buffer after the hardware has already been shutdown and
the ring buffer freed is neither required nor desirable.

uart_flush_buffer() performs 3 operations:
1. Resets tx ring buffer indices, but the tx ring buffer has
   already been freed and the indices are reset if the port is
   re-opened.
2. Calls uart driver's flush_buffer() method
   5 in-tree uart drivers define flush_buffer() methods:
     amba-pl011, atmel-serial, imx, serial-tegra, timbuart
   These have been refactored into the shutdown() method, if
   required.
3. Kicks the ldisc for more writing, but this is undesirable.
   The file handle is being released; any waiting writer will
   will be kicked out by tty_release() with a warning. Further,
   the N_TTY ldisc may generate SIGIO for a file handle which
   is no longer valid.

Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index 1166c52e51f4..787d67f74bd9 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1361,7 +1361,6 @@ static void uart_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
 
 	mutex_lock(&port->mutex);
 	uart_shutdown(tty, state);
-	uart_flush_buffer(tty);
 
 	tty_ldisc_flush(tty);