From: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
jirislaby@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:03:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080820000354.GD7154@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819181443.2c1dbbf8@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> > isn't too late for drivers that wait for the remaining data to be transmitted
> > such as amiserial and cyclades? Unless there's a plan to do it at
> > release_dev()?
>
> Agreed: waiting for data to be transmitted is one thing, freeing resources
> another. We don't want to be freeing resources until the tty object is
> destructed. Also most drivers won't be able to block there as they will
> be using krefs to the tty and thus potentially destructing it from an IRQ
> handler.
sorry to ask again, but did you managed to make your stack of patches
available for download?
--
Aristeu
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-08 21:36 [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage Aristeu Rozanski
2008-08-08 21:26 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-12 14:58 ` [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2) Aristeu Rozanski
2008-08-15 9:58 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-18 21:04 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2008-08-18 21:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-19 12:37 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-19 15:03 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-19 17:03 ` Aristeu Rozanski
2008-08-19 17:14 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-20 0:03 ` Aristeu Rozanski [this message]
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