Re: [PATCH v2] TTY: pty, fix pty counting in"/proc/sys/kernel/pty/nr"

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 05:07:20PM +0400, Ilya Zykov wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 01:48:35PM +0400, Ilya Zykov wrote:
> >> Regression for commit: 24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24
> >> Commit: 24d406a6b accepted in Linux 3.1.
> >> Disscussed on linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "subject: [PATCH] TTY: pty, fix pty counting"
> >> and not accepted.
> >> Although, I think it's clear.
> > 
> > Ilya, is there some reason you are ignoring the tty maintainer and
> > sending these to Linus directly?  These patches need to be tested in
> > linux-next, so at the earliest, they can be merged into Linus's tree for
> > 3.3, they are NOT 3.2 material, especially given that they are not even
> > accepted by the current tty developers.
> > 
> > So please work with us, and don't try to circumvent the existing
> > process, it is not the way we work here.
> > 
> > Especially as this specific patch was already rejected, for very good
> > reasons, why are you ignoring those reasons?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> 
> 
> OK, I understand you rules. 
> But I don't understand, what for, you accept patch(commit:
> 24d406a6bf736f7aebdc8fa0f0ec86e0890c6d24), where "pty" call
> tty_driver_remove_tty(), only for invoke its own
> route(pty_unix98_remove).

Please work with Alan and Jiri to get their acceptance of your patch,
they are the ones that need to ack it before I will.

thanks,

greg k-h
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