Re: [patch v2 6/6] staging: speakup: flush tty buffers and ensure hardware flow control

From: Okash Khawaja
Date: Tue May 16 2017 - 08:19:36 EST


Hi,

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:45:37PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
>> This patch fixes the issue where TTY-migrated synths would take a while to shut up after hitting numpad enter key. When calling synth_flush, even though XOFF character is sent as high priority, data buffered in TTY layer is still sent to the synth. This patch flushes that buffered data when synth_flush is called.
>
> Minor nit, please line-wrap your changelog text at 72 columns so that I
> don't have to do it "by hand".
Sure, will do.

>
>>
>> It also tries to ensure that hardware flow control is enabled, by setting CRTSCTS using tty's termios.
>>
>> Reported-by: John Covici <covici@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khawaja@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Index: linux-staging/drivers/staging/speakup/serialio.c
>> ===================================================================
>
> Are you using git? These lines are odd...
They come from quilt. Haven't checked yet if there is an option to
turn them off.

Thanks,
Okash