Re: [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2)

[Aristeu Rozanski]

> > isn't too late for drivers that wait for the remaining data to be transmitted
> > such as amiserial and cyclades? Unless there's a plan to do it at
> > release_dev()?
> 
> Agreed: waiting for data to be transmitted is one thing, freeing resources
> another. We don't want to be freeing resources until the tty object is
> destructed. Also most drivers won't be able to block there as they will
> be using krefs to the tty and thus potentially destructing it from an IRQ
> handler.
sorry to ask again, but did you managed to make your stack of patches
available for download?

-- 
Aristeu

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/