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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/serial')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/serial/driver | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/serial/tty.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/serial/driver b/Documentation/serial/driver index 3bba1aeb799c..c415b0ef4493 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial/driver +++ b/Documentation/serial/driver @@ -59,7 +59,9 @@ The core driver uses the info->tmpbuf_sem lock to prevent multi-threaded access to the info->tmpbuf bouncebuffer used for port writes. The port_sem semaphore is used to protect against ports being added/ -removed or reconfigured at inappropriate times. +removed or reconfigured at inappropriate times. Since v2.6.27, this +semaphore has been the 'mutex' member of the tty_port struct, and +commonly referred to as the port mutex (or port->mutex). uart_ops @@ -140,6 +142,8 @@ hardware. will append the character to the circular buffer and then call start_tx() / stop_tx() to flush the data out. + Do not transmit if ch == '\0' (__DISABLED_CHAR). + Locking: none. Interrupts: caller dependent. @@ -246,7 +250,7 @@ hardware. Other flags may be used (eg, xon/xoff characters) if your hardware supports hardware "soft" flow control. - Locking: none. + Locking: caller holds port->mutex Interrupts: caller dependent. This call must not sleep diff --git a/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt b/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt index 41c8378c0b2f..39dac95422a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt +++ b/Documentation/serial/serial-rs485.txt @@ -132,5 +132,5 @@ 5. REFERENCES - [1] include/linux/serial.h + [1] include/uapi/linux/serial.h [2] Documentation/devicetree/bindings/serial/rs485.txt diff --git a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt index 540db41dfd5d..1e52d67d0abf 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt +++ b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ set_termios() Notify the tty driver that the device's termios driver function is responsible for modifying any bits in the request it cannot fulfill to indicate the actual modes being used. A device with no - hardware capability for change (eg a USB dongle or + hardware capability for change (e.g. a USB dongle or virtual port) can provide NULL for this method. throttle() Notify the tty driver that input buffers for the @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ put_char() - Stuff a single character onto the queue. The flush_chars() - Ask the kernel to write put_char queue -write_room() - Return the number of characters tht can be stuffed +write_room() - Return the number of characters that can be stuffed into the port buffers without overflow (or less). The ldisc is responsible for being intelligent about multi-threading of write_room/write calls |