tty: Always handle NULL flag ptr

Most line disciplines already handle the undocumented NULL flag
ptr in their .receive_buf method; however, several don't.

Document the NULL flag ptr, and correct handling in the
N_MOUSE, N_GSM0710 and N_R394 line disciplines.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Peter Hurley
2013-12-02 13:56:03 -05:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 6c67716d64
commit 82f91fe092
4 changed files with 21 additions and 16 deletions

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@@ -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. <fp> may be NULL to indicate
* all data received is TTY_NORMAL.
*
* void (*write_wakeup)(struct tty_struct *);
*
@@ -118,7 +119,8 @@
* 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. <fp> may be NULL to indicate
* all data received is TTY_NORMAL.
* If assigned, prefer this function for automatic flow control.
*/