Re: [PATCH 18/41] TTY: pty, switch to tty_alloc_driver

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 08 2012 - 18:14:43 EST


> this and 19/41. The merge with DEVPTS_MEM (the termios case) needs
> devpts_kill_index to be moved from tty_release to
> pty_driver->ops->cleanup/shutdown, but I don't feel comfortable to do it
> now since it needs some testing. So I would add this to TODO and will
> send it after the next merge window. If I understood your point correctly?

That seems sensible - its on my list to sort as well. We don't need to
allocate some of the pointer arrays for many of the drivers (anything
which doesn't save termios state for example)

Alan
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