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Commit 479e9b94 authored by Peter Hurley's avatar Peter Hurley Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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serial: Refactor uart_flush_buffer() from uart_close()



In the context of the final tty & port close, flushing the tx
ring buffer after the hardware has already been shutdown and
the ring buffer freed is neither required nor desirable.

uart_flush_buffer() performs 3 operations:
1. Resets tx ring buffer indices, but the tx ring buffer has
   already been freed and the indices are reset if the port is
   re-opened.
2. Calls uart driver's flush_buffer() method
   5 in-tree uart drivers define flush_buffer() methods:
     amba-pl011, atmel-serial, imx, serial-tegra, timbuart
   These have been refactored into the shutdown() method, if
   required.
3. Kicks the ldisc for more writing, but this is undesirable.
   The file handle is being released; any waiting writer will
   will be kicked out by tty_release() with a warning. Further,
   the N_TTY ldisc may generate SIGIO for a file handle which
   is no longer valid.

Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Laxman Dewangan <ldewangan@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 86c80a8e
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