libserial-newlnx: ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY patch reverted Reports from Das Signal indicate that loadtools performance on Debian is about the same as on Slackware, and that including or omitting the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY patch from Serg makes no difference. Because the patch in question does not appear to be necessary, it is being reverted until and unless someone other than Serg reports an actual real-world system on which loadtools operation times are slowed compared to the Mother's Slackware reference and on which Slackware-like performance can be restored by setting the ASYNC_LOW_LATENCY flag.

/*
 * extern declarations of global variables
 */

extern char *imgfile;
extern off_t imgfile_offset;
extern u32 eraseblk_size;
extern int total_blocks;
extern u32 total_ffs_size;
extern int index_blk_num, root_inode;
extern int inode_limit;
extern int verbose, verbose2;
extern int old_16bit_location;

extern u8 *image, *inode_block;
extern struct inode_info **inode_info;