Re: TTY: tty_port questions

[Richard Weinberger]

On 12.03.2012 11:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> > 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.

"It will be" in terms of "not now"? ;-)

Thanks,
//richard
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