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| author | Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> | 2006-06-28 04:26:49 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-28 14:59:05 -0700 |
| commit | 33b37a33c242542fac2980b8ccd90977388b7a8d (patch) | |
| tree | e3a18605e57e1d1268dd04e9a3e5276f7f0488fe /include/linux/tty_flip.h | |
| parent | 2c3bb20f46709a0adfa7ea408013edbcab945d5a (diff) | |
| download | lwn-33b37a33c242542fac2980b8ccd90977388b7a8d.tar.gz lwn-33b37a33c242542fac2980b8ccd90977388b7a8d.zip | |
[PATCH] remove active field from tty buffer structure
Remove 'active' field from tty buffer structure. This was added in 2.6.16
as part of a patch to make the new tty buffering SMP safe. This field is
unnecessary with the more intelligently written flush_to_ldisc that adds
receive_room handling.
Removing this field reverts to simpler logic where the tail buffer is
always the 'active' buffer, which should not be freed by flush_to_ldisc.
(active == buffer being filled with new data)
The result is simpler, smaller, and faster tty buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tty_flip.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/tty_flip.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_flip.h b/include/linux/tty_flip.h index 31548303ee37..eb677cf56106 100644 --- a/include/linux/tty_flip.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_flip.h @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ static inline int tty_insert_flip_char(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char ch, char flag) { struct tty_buffer *tb = tty->buf.tail; - if (tb && tb->active && tb->used < tb->size) { + if (tb && tb->used < tb->size) { tb->flag_buf_ptr[tb->used] = flag; tb->char_buf_ptr[tb->used++] = ch; return 1; |