Re: [patch v2 1/6] tty: export tty_open_by_driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:45:32PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> This exports tty_open_by_driver so that it can be called from other places inside the kernel. The checks for null file pointer are based on Alan Cox's patch here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1215095.html. Description below is quoted from it:

Any non-staging users?  Please don't add new APIs with proper in-kernel
users (and staging doesn't count for that).