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From: Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, tytso@mit.edu,
	Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>,
	andrewm@uow.edu.au
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c
Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:22:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B053E1E.CA57DC6A@steinerpoint.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E150iOA-0006z3-00@the-village.bc.nu>

Alan Cox wrote:
> Add an 'owner' field to the objects we are using. Then we can lock the tty
> and the ldisc from the tyy_io code rather than in serial.c and friends. This
> removes the unload during open/close races we currently have in serial.c
> 
> Take a look at videodev.c for a fairly clear example.

Andrew Morton wrote:
> I have a work-in-non-progress here which addresses a few of
> these things.  It would be good if someone could review it
> and finish it off...

I will take a look.

-- Al

  reply	other threads:[~2001-05-18 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-17 20:00 [patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c Al Borchers
2001-05-17 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18  2:12   ` Al Borchers
2001-05-18  7:50     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18  8:24       ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18  9:08         ` Al Borchers
2001-05-18 11:25           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 15:22             ` Al Borchers [this message]
2001-05-18 10:09         ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-18 11:29           ` Alan Cox
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2001-01-22 13:55 Maciej W. Rozycki

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