Re: [BUG/PATCH] : bug in tty_default_put_char()

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 00:16:38 +0100


On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:41:03PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
> Patch below allow to set "uart=none", which is necessary for
> FIR hardware. Patch for 2.5.31.

Ok, thanks.

> The write is comming from the PPP line discipline. If PPP
> can't transmit the data, it just drops it and assume higher layers
> will retry. This is true for TCP, but not for "chat".

Last time I read the pppd code, chat doesn't talk via the ppp code, but
via the serial device itself. I'm still confused about this report,
since it could mean something is very wrong somewhere and not knowing
where is really bugging me. I really don't like sleeping problems that
come back to bite later.

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