From fdfb719e93b55a50f90da2059dc450e7c0c48e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Hurley Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2016 22:40:54 -0800 Subject: tty: Remove chars_in_buffer() line discipline method The chars_in_buffer() line discipline method serves no functional purpose, other than as a (dubious) debugging aid for mostly bit-rotting drivers. Despite being documented as an optional method, every caller is unconditionally executed (although conditionally compiled). Furthermore, direct tty->ldisc access without an ldisc ref is unsafe. Lastly, N_TTY's chars_in_buffer() has warned of removal since 3.12. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/tty_ldisc.h | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/tty_ldisc.h') diff --git a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h index 00c9d688d7b7..6101ab8dc148 100644 --- a/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h +++ b/include/linux/tty_ldisc.h @@ -25,12 +25,6 @@ * buffers of any input characters it may have queued to be * delivered to the user mode process. * - * ssize_t (*chars_in_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); - * - * This function returns the number of input characters the line - * discipline may have queued up to be delivered to the user mode - * process. - * * ssize_t (*read)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * file, * unsigned char * buf, size_t nr); * @@ -188,7 +182,6 @@ struct tty_ldisc_ops { int (*open)(struct tty_struct *); void (*close)(struct tty_struct *); void (*flush_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); - ssize_t (*chars_in_buffer)(struct tty_struct *tty); ssize_t (*read)(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, unsigned char __user *buf, size_t nr); ssize_t (*write)(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file, -- cgit v1.2.1