3 commits

Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Alan Cox	f34d7a5b70	tty: The big operations rework ... - Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other Linux objects - Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent behaviour - Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer - Document which functions are needed/optional - Make put_char report success/fail - Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops - Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need - Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan - Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/compat_ioctl.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix isicom] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arch/ia64/hp/sim/simserial.c build] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix kgdb] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>	2008-04-30 08:29:47 -07:00
Jason Wessel	c191e5ad6b	kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration ... Fix the run time configuration of kgdboc such that it does not default to 9600 baud if you use the "echo" command to configure the sysfs module paramater. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>	2008-04-17 20:05:38 +02:00
Jason Wessel	f2d937f3bf	consoles: polling support, kgdboc ... polled console handling support, to access a console in an irq-less way while in debug or irq context. absolutely zero impact as long as CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL is disabled. (which is the default) [ jan.kiszka@siemens.com: lots of cleanups ] [ mingo@elte.hu: redesign, splitups, cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>	2008-04-17 20:05:37 +02:00