On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:00:30AM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: > 29.09.2016 13:09, Johan Hovold пишет: > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 06:00:57PM +0300, Stas Sergeev wrote: > >> The TIOCOUTQ ioctl calls chars_in_buffer(), and some apps depend on > >> a correct behaviour of that. > >> mos7840 implements it wrongly: if you write just one char, TIOCOUTQ > >> will return 32. > >> This patch should fix it by accounting the number of chars actually > >> written. > >> This patch, unfortunately, misses the Tested-by tag. > >> The reporter didn't test it, and I don't have the hardware in question.
> > Why do you think the driver returns 32b in chars_in_buffer after writing > > a single character? > Hi Johan, this actually came from this ancient bug report: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45791 > I was trying to add you back then and now, but your e-mail > doesn't seem to be registered in a bug tracker. Yeah, Greg does good job at direction bug reports to the usb mailing list. > The code in question was different when I submitted the > original patch: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=77241 > Maybe the bug was since fixed. It does seem to have been addressed by commit 5c263b92f828 ("usb: serial: mos7840: Fixup mos7840_chars_in_buffer()") around the time of your original report in 2012. > In that case sorry for the noise. No worries. Thanks, Johan