Re: [PATCH 03/12] serial_core: Handle TIOC[GS]RS485 ioctls.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Oct 08 2014 - 19:29:45 EST


On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 22:43 +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> Hello Alan
>
> This patchset adds no extra locking features, if the drivers did not
> implement a locking mechanism (and none did) there is chance of
> conflict.
>
> I can add a call to lock/unlock around uart_[gs]et_rs485_config. And
> then, inside the drivers, use the lock when the structure is used.
>
> I would prefer to add it as new patches in the patchset, so in case
> this adds some bugs they can be bisected easily.


Makes sense.


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