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    [PATCH] fix serial close hang · 5ef8de79
    Dave Jones authored
    2.4/2.5 kernels suffer from an infinitely long hang when a serial tty device
    is closed, and there are characters waiting to be sent.  The hang occurs in
    tty_wait_until_sent.
    
    There is a timeout 'closing_wait' which defines how long to wait for the TX
    buffers to empty; the problem is that the serial layer totally ignores it.
    It is stored in two structures, 'info' and 'state'.  It is initialised in
    the 'state' structure, but used from the 'info' structure.
    
    It turns out that 'hub6' was also missing.
    
    I'm not currently clear what the expected behaviour should be when the
    timeout is changed via setserial, and others have the port open - I've
    opted to preserve the timeout until all users close the port.  It's
    trivial to change this behaviour though.
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