Re: [PATCH 1/2] TTY: ami_serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wednesday 13 July 2011, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> The same as in "TTY: serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent" we don't
> need to take BTM in wait_until_sent of ami_serial. Exactly the same
> as serial, ami_serial accesses some "info" members (xmit_fifo_size,
> timeout), but their assignment on other places in the code is not
> protected by BTM anyway.
> 
> So the BTM protects nothing here. This removal helps us to get rid of
> tty_locked() and __big_tty_mutex_owner in the following patch. This
> was suggested by Arnd.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andreas Bombe <aeb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
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