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authorJason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>2008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-17 20:05:37 +0200
commitf2d937f3bf00665ccf048b3b6616ef95859b0945 (patch)
tree6136ded0706be0d39a09a0a912e8f79a4ab63322 /drivers/char
parentdc7d552705215ac50a0617fcf51bb9c736255b8e (diff)
consoles: polling support, kgdboc
polled console handling support, to access a console in an irq-less way while in debug or irq context. absolutely zero impact as long as CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL is disabled. (which is the default) [ jan.kiszka@siemens.com: lots of cleanups ] [ mingo@elte.hu: redesign, splitups, cleanups. ] Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c47
1 files changed, 47 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 613ec816ce6..4d3c7018f0c 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -1155,6 +1155,48 @@ static struct tty_driver *get_tty_driver(dev_t device, int *index)
return NULL;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
+
+/**
+ * tty_find_polling_driver - find device of a polled tty
+ * @name: name string to match
+ * @line: pointer to resulting tty line nr
+ *
+ * This routine returns a tty driver structure, given a name
+ * and the condition that the tty driver is capable of polled
+ * operation.
+ */
+struct tty_driver *tty_find_polling_driver(char *name, int *line)
+{
+ struct tty_driver *p, *res = NULL;
+ int tty_line = 0;
+ char *str;
+
+ mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
+ /* Search through the tty devices to look for a match */
+ list_for_each_entry(p, &tty_drivers, tty_drivers) {
+ str = name + strlen(p->name);
+ tty_line = simple_strtoul(str, &str, 10);
+ if (*str == ',')
+ str++;
+ if (*str == '\0')
+ str = 0;
+
+ if (tty_line >= 0 && tty_line <= p->num && p->poll_init &&
+ !p->poll_init(p, tty_line, str)) {
+
+ res = p;
+ *line = tty_line;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
+
+ return res;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_find_polling_driver);
+#endif
+
/**
* tty_check_change - check for POSIX terminal changes
* @tty: tty to check
@@ -3850,6 +3892,11 @@ void tty_set_operations(struct tty_driver *driver,
driver->write_proc = op->write_proc;
driver->tiocmget = op->tiocmget;
driver->tiocmset = op->tiocmset;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CONSOLE_POLL
+ driver->poll_init = op->poll_init;
+ driver->poll_get_char = op->poll_get_char;
+ driver->poll_put_char = op->poll_put_char;
+#endif
}