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authorFelipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>2011-03-21 12:25:08 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-04-22 17:31:53 -0700
commitb1c43f82c5aa265442f82dba31ce985ebb7aa71c (patch)
tree8b344d8d5355b30e8deff901180edc708a653227 /include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
parente9a470f445271eb157ee860a93b062324402fc3a (diff)
tty: make receive_buf() return the amout of bytes received
it makes it simpler to keep track of the amount of bytes received and simplifies how flush_to_ldisc counts the remaining bytes. It also fixes a bug of lost bytes on n_tty when flushing too many bytes via the USB serial gadget driver. Tested-by: Stefan Bigler <stefan.bigler@keymile.com> Tested-by: Toby Gray <toby.gray@realvnc.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tty_ldisc.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty_ldisc.h9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
index ff7dc08696a8..5b07792ccb46 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
* tty device. It is solely the responsibility of the line
* discipline to handle poll requests.
*
- * void (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
+ * unsigned int (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
* char *fp, int count);
*
* This function is called by the low-level tty driver to send
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@
* processing. <cp> is a pointer to the buffer of input
* character received by the device. <fp> is a pointer to a
* pointer of flag bytes which indicate whether a character was
- * received with a parity error, etc.
+ * received with a parity error, etc. Returns the amount of bytes
+ * received.
*
* void (*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
*
@@ -140,8 +141,8 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops {
/*
* The following routines are called from below.
*/
- void (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *, const unsigned char *cp,
- char *fp, int count);
+ unsigned int (*receive_buf)(struct tty_struct *,
+ const unsigned char *cp, char *fp, int count);
void (*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
void (*dcd_change)(struct tty_struct *, unsigned int,
struct pps_event_time *);