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tty: Remove chars_in_buffer() line discipline method

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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>
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Peter Hurley
2016-01-10 22:40:54 -08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 582e20a03b
commit fdfb719e93
8 changed files with 13 additions and 68 deletions
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include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
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@@ -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,