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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+
+===================
+TTY Line Discipline
+===================
+
+.. contents:: :local:
+
+TTY line discipline process all incoming and outgoing character from/to a tty
+device. The default line discipline is :doc:`N_TTY <n_tty>`. It is also a
+fallback if establishing any other discipline for a tty fails. If even N_TTY
+fails, N_NULL takes over. That never fails, but also does not process any
+characters -- it throws them away.
+
+Registration
+============
+
+Line disciplines are registered with tty_register_ldisc() passing the ldisc
+structure. At the point of registration the discipline must be ready to use and
+it is possible it will get used before the call returns success. If the call
+returns an error then it won’t get called. Do not re-use ldisc numbers as they
+are part of the userspace ABI and writing over an existing ldisc will cause
+demons to eat your computer. You must not re-register over the top of the line
+discipline even with the same data or your computer again will be eaten by
+demons. In order to remove a line discipline call tty_unregister_ldisc().
+
+Heed this warning: the reference count field of the registered copies of the
+tty_ldisc structure in the ldisc table counts the number of lines using this
+discipline. The reference count of the tty_ldisc structure within a tty counts
+the number of active users of the ldisc at this instant. In effect it counts
+the number of threads of execution within an ldisc method (plus those about to
+enter and exit although this detail matters not).
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+   :identifiers: tty_register_ldisc tty_unregister_ldisc
+
+Other Functions
+===============
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+   :identifiers: tty_set_ldisc tty_ldisc_flush
+
+Line Discipline Operations Reference
+====================================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/tty_ldisc.h
+   :identifiers: tty_ldisc_ops
+
+Driver Access
+=============
+
+Line discipline methods can call the methods of the underlying hardware driver.
+These are documented as a part of struct tty_operations.
+
+TTY Flags
+=========
+
+Line discipline methods have access to :c:member:`tty_struct.flags` field. See
+:doc:`tty_struct`.
+
+Locking
+=======
+
+Callers to the line discipline functions from the tty layer are required to
+take line discipline locks. The same is true of calls from the driver side
+but not yet enforced.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+   :identifiers: tty_ldisc_ref_wait tty_ldisc_ref tty_ldisc_deref
+
+While these functions are slightly slower than the old code they should have
+minimal impact as most receive logic uses the flip buffers and they only
+need to take a reference when they push bits up through the driver.
+
+A caution: The :c:member:`tty_ldisc_ops.open()`,
+:c:member:`tty_ldisc_ops.close()` and :c:member:`tty_driver.set_ldisc()`
+functions are called with the ldisc unavailable. Thus tty_ldisc_ref() will fail
+in this situation if used within these functions.  Ldisc and driver code
+calling its own functions must be careful in this case.
+
+Internal Functions
+==================
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/tty/tty_ldisc.c
+   :internal: