Re: [PATCH] usb-serial: Fix usb serial console open/closeregression

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 12:41:50 EST


> This is a little unfortunate. It would be better to prevent
> tty_port_shutdown() from clearing ASYNCB_INITIALIZED in the first
> place. The problem is that the tty core doesn't know when the port is
> being used as a console. There ought to be a way to tell it.

Agreed - there should probably be a port.console flag to push it up into
the tty_port logic as well.

Alan
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