The recent breakage of the N_PPS line discipline is due to the tight coupling pps has created in the tty subsystem. Since the extension of the line discipline api to accomodate the needs of pps, this level of coupling is unnecessary and undesirable.
Peter Hurley (4): pps: Decouple N_PPS from N_TTY pps: Don't crash the machine when exiting will do pps: Use lookup list to reduce ldisc coupling tty: Remove ancient hardpps() drivers/pps/clients/pps-ldisc.c | 76 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- drivers/staging/speakup/selection.c | 1 + drivers/tty/amiserial.c | 5 --- drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 3 +- drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c | 23 ++++------- drivers/tty/tty_buffer.c | 1 + include/linux/serial_core.h | 1 - include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 11 ++---- 8 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
