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authorPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>2014-09-02 23:39:15 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-09-09 01:22:42 +0200
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parentserial: core: Remove unsafe x_char optimization (diff)
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serial: Fix send_xchar() handlers
START_CHAR() & STOP_CHAR() can be disabled if set to '\0' (__DISABLED_CHAR). UART drivers which define a send_xchar() handler must not transmit __DISABLED_CHAR. Document requirement. Affected drivers: sunsab sunhv cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> cc: <sparclinux@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/serial/driver b/Documentation/serial/driver
index 3bba1aeb799c..ba64e4b892e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/serial/driver
+++ b/Documentation/serial/driver
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ hardware.
will append the character to the circular buffer and then call
start_tx() / stop_tx() to flush the data out.
+ Do not transmit if ch == '\0' (__DISABLED_CHAR).
+
Locking: none.
Interrupts: caller dependent.