Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix

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On Maw, 2006-02-07 at 15:27 -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Olaf:
> 
> Try this patch and let me know how it works.
> (it is against 2.6.16-rc2-git1)
> 
> This change prevents claiming a partially filled
> buffer if it has already been committed by the
> driver calling a tty scheduling function, but not
> yet processed by the tty layer.

Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases. Might be
better to document the sane behaviour and enforce it ?

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