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From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: BALBIR SINGH <balbir.singh@wipro.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir_soni@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch: Fix serial module use count (2.4.16 _and_ 2.5)
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:36:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011130093612.B18162@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011129160637.50471.qmail@web13606.mail.yahoo.com> <20011129161756.D6214@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <3C070A4D.7000708@wipro.com>
In-Reply-To: <3C070A4D.7000708@wipro.com>; from balbir.singh@wipro.com on Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:55:49AM +0530

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 09:55:49AM +0530, BALBIR SINGH wrote:
> What I mean by I call rs_open() is that the person who writes the tty layer
> should not call close() after open() fails, I cannot directly invoke rs_open()
> and rs_close(), I KNOW that.

We can't change the tty layer in 2.4 at this point.  We can do it in 2.5.
It requires an audit of all drivers though.  I believe we're going over
ground covered earlier in this thread now.

> I have some suggestions, ideas for the serial driver in 2.5, are u willing
> to discuss them?

Please look at the cvs stuff at:

   :pserver:cvs@pubcvs.arm.linux.org.uk:/mnt/src/cvsroot, module serial
   (no password)

Thanks.

--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


  reply	other threads:[~2001-11-30  9:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-11-29 16:06 Patch: Fix serial module use count (2.4.16 _and_ 2.5) Balbir Singh
2001-11-29 16:17 ` Russell King
2001-11-30  4:25   ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-11-30  9:36     ` Russell King [this message]
2001-11-30 22:19     ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-30 23:06       ` Russell King
2001-12-01  0:20         ` Mike Fedyk
2001-11-29 18:03 ` Jeff Randall
2001-11-29 18:12   ` Russell King
2001-11-29 18:44     ` Jeff Randall
2001-11-29 19:05     ` James Simmons
2001-11-30 10:44   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2001-11-30 10:56     ` Russell King
2001-11-30 12:11       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-29 13:10 Russell King
2001-11-29 13:48 ` BALBIR SINGH
2001-11-29 15:37   ` Russell King

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