Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix oops when unexisting usb serial device is opened.

Greg KH
2009-06-24T20:58:03Z

On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 08:31:17AM -0300, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo wrote:
> This commit 335f8514f200e63d689113d29cb7253a5c282967 has stopped
> properly checking if there is any usb serial associated with the tty in
> the close function. It happens the close function is called by releasing
> the terminal right after opening the device fails.

Why would open fail?

thanks,

greg k-h