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SubjectRe: [PATCH -next 05/10] tty: Document defunct ASYNC_* bits in uapi header
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 03:31:28PM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 10/17/2014, 02:44 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > Hi Jiri,
> >
> > On 10/17/2014 04:46 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> >> On 10/16/2014, 10:54 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> >>> Note the serial_struct flags for which the kernel ignores and performs
> >>> no action. The flags cannot be removed since they form part of the
> >>> userspace interface via the TIOCSSERIAL/TIOCGSERIAL ioctls.
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> would it make sense to mark them deprecated somehow? At build time
> >
> > A build warning when the macro is expanded would be best, but my
> > c-preprocessor-fu is terrible, so I have no idea how to make that work.
>
> We can define a deprecated type like:
>
> typedef __u32 __attribute__((deprecated)) depr_tty_t
>
> and then do define:
>
> #define ASYNCB_FLAG_1 (depr_tty_t)1
> #define ASYNCB_FLAG_2 (depr_tty_t)2
>
> Etc.
>
> However, I do not know if it is desirable AND whether all compilers out
> there used in userspace support that attribute.
>
> >> or
> >> at least warn in the serial core that "current->comm is using a
> >> deprecated flag"_ratelimited()?
> >
> > If we just print the message at TIOCSSERIAL if any of the deprecated
> > bits are set, that would be ok. Probably the only issue would be that
> > setserial could cause this message at will, so log flooding would be
> > a concern.
>
> That's why _ratelimited(). So something like the patch attached. But it
> needs to be put to a separate function, out of the line.
>
> /me currently builds a kernel to see who, if anybody, uses the flags on
> a up-to-date system...

What ever happened with this test? Care to resend it as a "real" patch
so we can annoy userspace? :)

thanks,

greg k-h


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