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| author | Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> | 2016-01-10 22:40:54 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-01-27 15:01:44 -0800 |
| commit | fdfb719e93b55a50f90da2059dc450e7c0c48e8f (patch) | |
| tree | 5317736293b5c7c16673df42d4542b78a70831aa /include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | |
| parent | 582e20a03b9bcbddaeaffb38800323ddcc4a9173 (diff) | |
tty: Remove chars_in_buffer() line discipline method
The chars_in_buffer() line discipline method serves no functional
purpose, other than as a (dubious) debugging aid for mostly bit-rotting
drivers. Despite being documented as an optional method, every caller
is unconditionally executed (although conditionally compiled).
Furthermore, direct tty->ldisc access without an ldisc ref is unsafe.
Lastly, N_TTY's chars_in_buffer() has warned of removal since 3.12.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tty_ldisc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h index 00c9d688d7b7..6101ab8dc148 100644 --- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h @@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ * buffers of any input characters it may have queued to be * delivered to the user mode process. * - * ssize_t (*chars_in_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); - * - * This function returns the number of input characters the line - * discipline may have queued up to be delivered to the user mode - * process. - * * ssize_t (*read)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * file, * unsigned char * buf, size_t nr); * @@ -188,7 +182,6 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops { int (*open)(struct tty_struct *); void (*close)(struct tty_struct *); void (*flush_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); - ssize_t (*chars_in_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); ssize_t (*read)(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, unsigned char __user *buf, size_t nr); ssize_t (*write)(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, |