On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 02:45:32PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
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> > I'm not familiar enough with the tty code to decide what the proper fix should 
> > be. I'll try to write a patch if someone could point me in the right 
> > direction.
> 
> Something like this perhaps ?
> 
[....]
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> - *	flush all the buffers containing receive data
> + *	flush all the buffers containing receive data. Caller must
> + *	hold the buffer lock and must have ensured no parallel flush to
> + *	ldisc is running.
>   *
>   *	Locking: none
                 ^^^^
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>   */
Isn't the comment a bit misleading here? The caller must hold tty->buf.lock.

Frederik
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