From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Telford002@aol.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TTY Driver Open and Close Logic
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:48:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011218164840.B13126@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5.10e6703a.29509786@aol.com>
In-Reply-To: <e5.10e6703a.29509786@aol.com>; from Telford002@aol.com on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:58:46AM -0500
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:58:46AM -0500, Telford002@aol.com wrote:
> I have been working on various serial drivers and I notice that physical
> driver close routine is called in all cases even if the physical driver
> open routine fails. That suggests to me that a lot of the MOD_DEC/INC_COUNT
> logic in serial.c and other physical serial drivers is incorrect. As
> serial.c seems usually to be compiled into the kernel the issue
> is not so important, but a lot of the other logic associated with
> open counts also seems incorrect. Is this observation correct?
Absolutely 100% correct.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-18 16:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-18 12:58 TTY Driver Open and Close Logic Telford002
2001-12-18 14:16 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-18 16:55 ` Russell King
2001-12-18 16:48 ` Russell King [this message]
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