Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread Russell King
On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:42:00PM -0400, Stuart MacDonald wrote: > Best way to get this in the serial driver is to do some patches for it > and send them to Ted. :-) Please copy them to me as well. The ARM tree has a core uart driver in currently which handles several different types of serial

Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread Stuart MacDonald
From: "James R Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The overall size of the circular buffer would have to be decreased > too, but that's more of a hack to fix it now; Which I guess is what it > comes to. I see what you're saying; AFAIUnderstand, the low latency patches bypass the circular buffer. Or make

Re: serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread James R Bruce
Re: serial port O_SYNC func.. by "Stuart MacDonald"@conne > From: "James R Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > As far as I can tell from observed operation and from perusing the > > code, O_SYNC doesn't seem to be supported by the serial driver in > > 2.4.5. Writes are forced as far as the serial.c'

serial port O_SYNC functionality in 2.4.5

2001-07-03 Thread James R Bruce
As far as I can tell from observed operation and from perusing the code, O_SYNC doesn't seem to be supported by the serial driver in 2.4.5. Writes are forced as far as the serial.c's circular queue, but O_SYNC seems to be ignored from there on, so any application trying to do small synchronous w