Hi,
Bug : tty_default_put_char() doesn't check the return value of
tty->driver.write(). However, the later may fail if buffers are full.
Solution : It's not obvious what should be done. The attached
patch is certainly wrong, but gives you an idea of what the problem
is.
Long story :
User weant to do PPP over IrCOMM. "chat" opens ircomm device
in non blocking mode and write char by char. I suspect that it's using
the above call, but can't verify (because it doesn't happen to me). As
IrCOMM has not finished its initialisation (the open was
non-blocking), it refuses the write and returns 0.
Character dropped, user unhappy, bugs me about it.
I'll try to workaround that in IrCOMM.
Regards,
Jean
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diff -u -p linux/drivers/char/tty_io.t1.c linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- linux/drivers/char/tty_io.t1.c Mon Aug 26 10:55:33 2002
+++ linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c Mon Aug 26 10:58:34 2002
@@ -2021,7 +2021,11 @@ static void initialize_tty_struct(struct
*/
void tty_default_put_char(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char ch)
{
- tty->driver.write(tty, 0, &ch, 1);
+ int ret = tty->driver.write(tty, 0, &ch, 1);
+ /* This might fail if the lower layer is already full - Jean II */
+ if (ret == 0)
+ printk(KERN_WARNING "Warning: dev (%s) put_char failed\n",
+ kdevname(tty->device));
}
/*
-
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