[PATCH] remove active field from tty buffer structure
Remove 'active' field from tty buffer structure. This was added in 2.6.16
as part of a patch to make the new tty buffering SMP safe. This field is
unnecessary with the more intelligently written flush_to_ldisc that adds
receive_room handling.
Removing this field reverts to simpler logic where the tail buffer is
always the 'active' buffer, which should not be freed by flush_to_ldisc.
(active == buffer being filled with new data)
The result is simpler, smaller, and faster tty buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_flip.h b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
index 3154830..eb677cf 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_flip.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_flip.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
unsigned char ch, char flag)
{
struct tty_buffer *tb = tty->buf.tail;
- if (tb && tb->active && tb->used < tb->size) {
+ if (tb && tb->used < tb->size) {
tb->flag_buf_ptr[tb->used] = flag;
tb->char_buf_ptr[tb->used++] = ch;
return 1;