From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753292Ab0IQREL (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:04:11 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:43398 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752191Ab0IQREK (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:04:10 -0400 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:01:49 -0700 From: Greg KH To: David Miller Cc: alan@linux.intel.com, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drosenberg@vsecurity.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good Message-ID: <20100917170149.GB13570@kroah.com> References: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100916.215639.172549193.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100916.215639.172549193.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 09:56:39PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Alan Cox > Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:21:06 +0100 > > > Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never > > going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem > > away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job. > > > > --- > > > > Alan Cox (3): > > tty: icount changeover for other main devices > > tty: Convert the USB drivers to the new icount interface > > tty: Make tiocgicount a handler > > This is a good plan for the next merge window, but for the current > -rc series and -stable we'd better just fix the individual cases. Agreed, that's the plan now. thanks, greg k-h