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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/20] Implment a tty port structure and supporting
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> > But if a great mountain of tty- and/or char-related patches is
> > forthcoming, that mountain will probably have a depencency upon your
> > tree.  And that's OK too, as long as you don't go and bugger up your
> > tree and get it dropped from linux-next!  Because if that happens I'll
> > need to temporarily drop all the dependent patches and remember to
> > restore them, which is always a bit sad.
> 
> That's up to Alan, I don't know what he has brewing for 2.6.27.

I'm trying to work in sensible testable stages. Whats brewing at the
moment is thoughts tty_get() and tty_put() but I don't have a bootable
usable tree for that yet and there is work to be done.