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docs: ABI: sysfs-tty: close times are in centiseconds
authorSimon Arlott <simon@octiron.net>
Sun, 27 Aug 2023 18:23:39 +0000 (19:23 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 18 Sep 2023 09:14:43 +0000 (11:14 +0200)
The times for close_delay and closing_wait are in centiseconds, not
milliseconds. Fix the documentation and add details of special values.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@octiron.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/30fa035a-709f-58cd-fc1e-fef1367dc6dd@0882a8b5-c6c3-11e9-b005-00805fc181fe.uuid.home.arpa
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty

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@@ -87,19 +87,22 @@ What:               /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/close_delay
 Date:          October 2012
 Contact:       Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
 Description:
-                Show the closing delay time for this port in ms.
+               Show the closing delay time for this port in centiseconds.
 
-                These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
-                sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+               These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+               sysfs rather than via ioctls.
 
 What:          /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/closing_wait
 Date:          October 2012
 Contact:       Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
 Description:
-                Show the close wait time for this port in ms.
+               Show the close wait time for this port in centiseconds.
 
-                These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
-                sysfs rather than via ioctls.
+               Waiting forever is represented as 0. If waiting on close is
+               disabled then the value is 65535.
+
+               These sysfs values expose the TIOCGSERIAL interface via
+               sysfs rather than via ioctls.
 
 What:          /sys/class/tty/ttyS<x>/custom_divisor
 Date:          October 2012