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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>2016-03-14 16:16:11 +0100
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2016-03-31 00:58:13 -0600
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serial: doc: Document .throttle()
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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@@ -126,6 +126,13 @@ hardware.
Interrupts: locally disabled.
This call must not sleep
+ throttle(port)
+ Notify the serial driver that input buffers for the line discipline are
+ close to full, and it should somehow signal that no more characters
+ should be sent to the serial port.
+
+ Locking: none.
+
send_xchar(port,ch)
Transmit a high priority character, even if the port is stopped.
This is used to implement XON/XOFF flow control and tcflow(). If
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