From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756952AbcAJFgw (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:36:52 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:33300 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488AbcAJFf2 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Jan 2016 00:35:28 -0500 From: Peter Hurley To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Jiri Slaby , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Hurley Subject: [PATCH v2 1/6] tty: Unexport system-wide tty_mutex Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 21:35:18 -0800 Message-Id: <1452404123-9024-2-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.0 In-Reply-To: <1452404123-9024-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> References: <1448678317-9093-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> <1452404123-9024-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org tty_mutex is a core, system-wide lock; there is no reason for any code outside the tty core to have direct access. Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley --- drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c index cef913c..0650a34 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c @@ -135,10 +135,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_std_termios); LIST_HEAD(tty_drivers); /* linked list of tty drivers */ -/* Mutex to protect creating and releasing a tty. This is shared with - vt.c for deeply disgusting hack reasons */ +/* Mutex to protect creating and releasing a tty */ DEFINE_MUTEX(tty_mutex); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_mutex); /* Spinlock to protect the tty->tty_files list */ DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tty_files_lock); -- 2.7.0