On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:26:26 +0200 Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > this is the fifth series of patches which finally move tty buffers > from tty_struct (present from open to close/hangup) to tty_port > (present as long as the device). This allows us to get rid of the tty > refcounting in the interrupt service routines and other hot paths > after we are done. This is because we do not need to handle races > among ISRs, timers, hangups and others, because tty_port lives as long > as an interrupt/timer tick may occur. Unlike tty_struct. Looks good to me working through them Acked-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
