From fdfb719e93b55a50f90da2059dc450e7c0c48e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:40:54 -0800 Subject: tty: Remove chars_in_buffer() line discipline method The chars_in_buffer() line discipline method serves no functional purpose, other than as a (dubious) debugging aid for mostly bit-rotting drivers. Despite being documented as an optional method, every caller is unconditionally executed (although conditionally compiled). Furthermore, direct tty->ldisc access without an ldisc ref is unsafe. Lastly, N_TTY's chars_in_buffer() has warned of removal since 3.12. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/serial/tty.txt | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/serial') diff --git a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt index bc3842d..798cba8 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt +++ b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt @@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ flush_buffer() - (optional) May be called at any point between open and close, and instructs the line discipline to empty its input buffer. -chars_in_buffer() - (optional) Report the number of bytes in the input - buffer. - set_termios() - (optional) Called on termios structure changes. The caller passes the old termios data and the current data is in the tty. Called under the -- cgit v1.1