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diff --git a/kernel/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/kernel/Documentation/serial/tty.txt index dbe6623fe..bc3842dc3 100644 --- a/kernel/Documentation/serial/tty.txt +++ b/kernel/Documentation/serial/tty.txt @@ -4,9 +4,6 @@ Your guide to the ancient and twisted locking policies of the tty layer and the warped logic behind them. Beware all ye who read on. -FIXME: still need to work out the full set of BKL assumptions and document -them so they can eventually be killed off. - Line Discipline --------------- @@ -42,8 +39,13 @@ TTY side interfaces: open() - Called when the line discipline is attached to the terminal. No other call into the line discipline for this tty will occur until it - completes successfully. Returning an error will - prevent the ldisc from being attached. Can sleep. + completes successfully. Should initialize any + state needed by the ldisc, and set receive_room + in the tty_struct to the maximum amount of data + the line discipline is willing to accept from the + driver with a single call to receive_buf(). + Returning an error will prevent the ldisc from + being attached. Can sleep. close() - This is called on a terminal when the line discipline is being unplugged. At the point of @@ -55,9 +57,16 @@ hangup() - Called when the tty line is hung up. No further calls into the ldisc code will occur. The return value is ignored. Can sleep. -write() - A process is writing data through the line - discipline. Multiple write calls are serialized - by the tty layer for the ldisc. May sleep. +read() - (optional) A process requests reading data from + the line. Multiple read calls may occur in parallel + and the ldisc must deal with serialization issues. + If not defined, the process will receive an EIO + error. May sleep. + +write() - (optional) A process requests writing data to the + line. Multiple write calls are serialized by the + tty layer for the ldisc. If not defined, the + process will receive an EIO error. May sleep. flush_buffer() - (optional) May be called at any point between open and close, and instructs the line discipline @@ -72,27 +81,33 @@ set_termios() - (optional) Called on termios structure changes. termios semaphore so allowed to sleep. Serialized against itself only. -read() - Move data from the line discipline to the user. - Multiple read calls may occur in parallel and the - ldisc must deal with serialization issues. May - sleep. - -poll() - Check the status for the poll/select calls. Multiple - poll calls may occur in parallel. May sleep. +poll() - (optional) Check the status for the poll/select + calls. Multiple poll calls may occur in parallel. + May sleep. -ioctl() - Called when an ioctl is handed to the tty layer - that might be for the ldisc. Multiple ioctl calls - may occur in parallel. May sleep. +ioctl() - (optional) Called when an ioctl is handed to the + tty layer that might be for the ldisc. Multiple + ioctl calls may occur in parallel. May sleep. -compat_ioctl() - Called when a 32 bit ioctl is handed to the tty layer - that might be for the ldisc. Multiple ioctl calls - may occur in parallel. May sleep. +compat_ioctl() - (optional) Called when a 32 bit ioctl is handed + to the tty layer that might be for the ldisc. + Multiple ioctl calls may occur in parallel. + May sleep. Driver Side Interfaces: -receive_buf() - Hand buffers of bytes from the driver to the ldisc - for processing. Semantics currently rather - mysterious 8( +receive_buf() - (optional) Called by the low-level driver to hand + a buffer of received bytes to the ldisc for + processing. The number of bytes is guaranteed not + to exceed the current value of tty->receive_room. + All bytes must be processed. + +receive_buf2() - (optional) Called by the low-level driver to hand + a buffer of received bytes to the ldisc for + processing. Returns the number of bytes processed. + + If both receive_buf() and receive_buf2() are + defined, receive_buf2() should be preferred. write_wakeup() - May be called at any point between open and close. The TTY_DO_WRITE_WAKEUP flag indicates if a call |