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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] tty: untangle locking of wait_until_sent
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:00:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100524190038.GH1292@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100505205905.3c87b403@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Hi!

> >  net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c  |    2 +-
> 
> Semi-defunct at best
> 
> This makes me think that now might be a good time to consign the broken
> crap to the bitbucket unless someone stands up with hardware and who
> wants to maintain it.

ircomm_tty is fairly common hardware, afaict, it is just not used
often. Main use case would be backup of your phone numbers, afaict.
It would be good to keep it for once-in-a-blue-moon use...
									Pavel

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-24 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-04 22:33 [PATCH v2 00/13] BKL conversion in tty layer Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 01/13] tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 02/13] tty: make atomic_write_lock release tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 10:57   ` Alan Cox
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 03/13] tty: make tty_port->mutex nest under tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 04/13] tty: make termios mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 16:11   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 05/13] tty: make ldisc_mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 06/13] tty: never hold BTM while getting tty_mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 07/13] tty: give up BTM in acquire_console_sem Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 08/13] tty: release tty lock when blocking Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 09/13] tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 10/13] tty: untangle locking of wait_until_sent Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 19:59   ` Alan Cox
2010-05-05 21:31     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 22:51     ` Greg KH
2010-05-05 23:52       ` Alan Cox
2010-05-24 19:00     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-05-24 20:27       ` Alan Cox
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 11/13] tty: remove tty_lock_nested Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 12/13] tty: remove release_tty_lock/reacquire_tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 13/13] tty: turn ldisc_mutex into a regular mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05  9:18   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 10:52 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] BKL conversion in tty layer Alan Cox
2010-05-05 12:24   ` Arnd Bergmann

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