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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com,
	Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] TTY: serial, remove tasklet for tty_wakeup
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:08:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201107122308.26080.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1310503400-28447-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz>

On Tuesday 12 July 2011 22:43:20 Jiri Slaby wrote:
> tty_wakeup can be called from any context. So there is no need to have
> an extra tasklet for calling that. Hence save some space and remove
> the tasklet completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

This is probably ok, but strictly speaking, we we cannot call 
tty_wakeup from any context: not while holding the ldisc_mutex,
i.e. from  ld->ops->{open,close}.

I don't see a reason why we would ever do that, but it's the
only explanation I have why the tasklet was introduced intially.

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-12 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-12 20:43 [PATCH 1/3] TTY: serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent Jiri Slaby
2011-07-12 20:43 ` [PATCH 2/3] TTY: msm_serial, remove unneeded console set Jiri Slaby
2011-07-12 20:43 ` [PATCH 3/3] TTY: serial, remove tasklet for tty_wakeup Jiri Slaby
2011-07-12 21:08   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-07-12 21:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] TTY: serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-13 10:31   ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: ami_serial, " Jiri Slaby
2011-07-13 10:31     ` [PATCH 2/2] TTY: remove tty_locked Jiri Slaby
2011-07-13 12:56       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-07-14 12:18       ` Jiri Slaby
2011-07-13 12:56     ` [PATCH 1/2] TTY: ami_serial, remove BTM from wait_until_sent Arnd Bergmann

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