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From: Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] missing NULL check in drivers/char/n_tty.c
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:36:44 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040621073644.GA10781@callisto.yi.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040620235824.5407bc4c.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 11:58:24PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dan Aloni <da-x@gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > The rest of the kernel treats tty->driver->chars_in_buffer as a possible
> >  NULL. This patch changes normal_poll() to be consistent with the rest of
> >  the code.
> 
> It would be better to change the rest of the kernel - remove the tests.
> 
> If any driver fails to implement ->chars_in_buffer() then we get a nice
> oops which tells us that driver needs a stub handler.

Are you sure that it won't affect the logic in tty_wait_until_sent() 
drastically? It acts quite differently when ->chars_in_buffer == NULL.

-- 
Dan Aloni
da-x@colinux.org

  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-21  7:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-21  6:38 [PATCH] missing NULL check in drivers/char/n_tty.c Dan Aloni
2004-06-21  6:58 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-21  7:36   ` Dan Aloni [this message]
2004-06-21  7:39     ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-21  8:24       ` Dan Aloni
2004-06-21 15:06         ` Paul Fulghum
2004-06-21 18:46           ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-21 19:52             ` Paul Fulghum
2004-06-21 22:48             ` Dan Aloni
2004-06-21 23:56               ` Paul Fulghum

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