From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: The big operations rework
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:37:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415053706.GD23965@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080413184011.7bd2f646@core>
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 06:40:11PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> - Operations are now a shared const function block as with most other
> Linux objects
> - Introduce wrappers for some optional functions to get consistent
> behaviour
> - Wrap put_char which used to be patched by the tty layer
> - Document which functions are needed/optional
> - Make put_char report success/fail
> - Cache the driver->ops pointer in the tty as tty->ops
> - Remove various surplus lock calls we no longer need
> - Remove proc_write method as noted by Alexey Dobriyan
> - Introduce some missing sanity checks where certain driver/ldisc
> combinations would oops as they didn't check needed methods were present
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Very nice, thanks for plugging away on this rework, it's really
appreciated.
If you want, you can add:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
to the patch.
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-15 15:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-13 17:40 [PATCH] tty: The big operations rework Alan Cox
2008-04-15 5:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080415053706.GD23965@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-usb@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox