Re: [PATCH] tty: Remove dead termiox code

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Fri Dec 04 2020 - 02:23:38 EST


On 03. 12. 20, 3:03, Jann Horn wrote:
set_termiox() and the TCGETX handler bail out with -EINVAL immediately
if ->termiox is NULL, but there are no code paths that can set
->termiox to a non-NULL pointer; and no such code paths seem to have
existed since the termiox mechanism was introduced back in
commit 1d65b4a088de ("tty: Add termiox") in v2.6.28.
Similarly, no driver actually implements .set_termiox; and it looks like
no driver ever has.

Nice!

Delete this dead code; but leave the definition of struct termiox in the
UAPI headers intact.

I am thinking -- can/should we mark the structure as deprecated so that userspace stops using it eventually?

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