Re: TTY: tty_port questions

[Alan Cox]

> Another question, what is the purpose of tty_port->console?
> It seems to have no user.

So the tty_port layer can in future know about whether it is a console
without a tty necessarily being present or referenceable.

> Is tty_port really the right thing for a console driver like in the UML 
> case?

It will be. In order to fix the tty locking mess we need to shove a lot
of stuff whose lifetime is the lifetime of the physical port somewhere
else - the tty_port is that structure.

Alan
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