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tty: docs: serial/tty, add to ldisc methods

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A small addition to the ldisc method descriptions.

Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Tilman Schmidt 2009-11-04 16:04:52 -08:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ TTY side interfaces:
open() - Called when the line discipline is attached to
the terminal. No other call into the line
discipline for this tty will occur until it
completes successfully. Can sleep.
completes successfully. Returning an error will
prevent the ldisc from being attached. Can sleep.
close() - This is called on a terminal when the line
discipline is being unplugged. At the point of
@ -52,7 +53,7 @@ close() - This is called on a terminal when the line
hangup() - Called when the tty line is hung up.
The line discipline should cease I/O to the tty.
No further calls into the ldisc code will occur.
Can sleep.
The return value is ignored. Can sleep.
write() - A process is writing data through the line
discipline. Multiple write calls are serialized
@ -83,6 +84,10 @@ ioctl() - Called when an ioctl is handed to the tty layer
that might be for the ldisc. Multiple ioctl calls
may occur in parallel. May sleep.
compat_ioctl() - Called when a 32 bit ioctl is handed to the tty layer
that might be for the ldisc. Multiple ioctl calls
may occur in parallel. May sleep.
Driver Side Interfaces:
receive_buf() - Hand buffers of bytes from the driver to the ldisc