Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:46:27 +0100 | From | Johan Hovold <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] tty: add flag to suppress ready signalling on open |
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On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 02:01:30PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > O_DIRECT is an interesting hack, has anyone seen if it violates the > posix rules for us to use it on a character device like this?
Jiri only mentioned O_DIRECT as an example of a flag which we might be able to repurpose/abuse for this. O_DIRECT is linux-specific, not in POSIX, so we'd still end up with a Linux-specific interface if we were to take this route.
Johan
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