Re: [PATCH 1/3]: tty - fix network driver interactions with TCGET/SET calls

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:33:29 +0000

> Dave Miller noted various cases where line disciplines for things like
> ppp go poking around in termios themselves in ways that broke with the
> new termios code. Rather than have them all learning about termios
> internals provide proper methods for this
> 
> - tty_mode_ioctl()
> 
> 	This handles all the terminal mode handling for speed/carrier etc
> and none of the methods are ldisc dependant so they can be called by any
> user
> 
> - tty_perform_flush()
> 
> 	This extracts the flush functionality and enables pppd the ppp
> layer to share it cleanly.
> 
> 
> The existing n_tty_ioctl code is refactored in this patch to provide the
> new functions and to call them itself appropriately. This patch has no
> (intended) behaviour changes and simply prepares for the other fixes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Patch applied.
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