serial: doc: Un-document obsolete tmpbuf_sem
uart_info.tmpbuf and uart_info.tmpbuf_sem were removed in v2.6.10, in
full-history-linux commit a797ad7e3ae9cad4 ("[SERIAL] Clean up
serial_core.c write functions.").
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/serial/driver b/Documentation/serial/driver
index e7c6f86..61d520d 100644
--- a/Documentation/serial/driver
+++ b/Documentation/serial/driver
@@ -36,8 +36,7 @@
necessary locking using port->lock. There are some exceptions (which
are described in the uart_ops listing below.)
-There are three locks. A per-port spinlock, a per-port tmpbuf semaphore,
-and an overall semaphore.
+There are two locks. A per-port spinlock, and an overall semaphore.
From the core driver perspective, the port->lock locks the following
data:
@@ -50,9 +49,6 @@
The low level driver is free to use this lock to provide any additional
locking.
-The core driver uses the info->tmpbuf_sem lock to prevent multi-threaded
-access to the info->tmpbuf bouncebuffer used for port writes.
-
The port_sem semaphore is used to protect against ports being added/
removed or reconfigured at inappropriate times. Since v2.6.27, this
semaphore has been the 'mutex' member of the tty_port struct, and