On Friday 23 June 2006 09:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Gwe, 2006-06-23 am 15:21 +0200, ysgrifennodd Charles Majola:
> > Alan, can you please give me pointers on the tty changes since 2.6.12?
>
> The newest kernels have a replacement set of tty receive functions that
> use a new buffering system.
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5473
>
> covers the changes briefly. The internals of the buffering changes are
> quite complex because Paul did some rather neat things with SMP locking
> but the API is nice and simple.
>
> Its fairly easy to express the old API in terms of the new one if you
> are doing compat wrappers as well
Actually, its rather neat that something as 'simple' as tty still gets heavily
hacked on every once in awhile.
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