Re: Problem with serial.c introduced in 2.4.15

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:48:39 +0000


On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 05:57:08PM +0100, Christian Asam wrote:
> The #if 0 and #endif was removed in 2.4.15 and somehow that breaks
> gpm/genitizer. Having added the "commenting out through $if 0" the
> tablet works fine again and deactivating the appropriate line in 2.4.18
> also works.

It sounds like gpm is buggy. If an application turns off the CREAD flag
and expects to read characters from a TTY, then its asking too much. 8)

[-]cread
allow input to be received

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