Re: [PATCH RESEND] tty: don't dead lock while flushing workqueue

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:15:40 +0100
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 12/03/2012 06:41 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> > The lock logic for tty_set_ldisc() is wrong. Despite existing code in
> > tty_set_ldisc() and tty_ldisc_hangup(), the ldisc_mutex does **not**
> > (and should not) play a role in acquiring or releasing ldisc references.
> > The only thing that needs to happen here is below (don't actually use
> > below because I just hand-edited it):
> 
> Hmm. What about I stay in sync with the code that is already in tree
> and if the wrong locking gets removed in both places later on?
> 
> Alan, what do you prefer?

So long as it ends up right I don't care 8)
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