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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jirislaby@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/41] TTY: pty, switch to tty_alloc_driver
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:37:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120808163757.28a28df1@bob.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344368886-24033-19-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz>

On Tue,  7 Aug 2012 21:47:43 +0200
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> wrote:

> Switch to the new driver allocation interface, as this is one of the
> special call-sites. Here, we need TTY_DRIVER_EXCESSIVE_LINES to not
> allocate tty_driver->ports, cdevs and potentially other structures
> because we reserve too many lines in pty. Instead, it provides the
> tty_port<->tty_struct link in tty->ops->install already.

This is the only thing I would quibble about in the entire patch set.

We've got a pile of things that the pty does and one or two other
drivers might want to do about dynamic allocation (termios objects is
the same problem).

I think it's a mistake to call it EXCESSIVE_LINES, better a name which
indicates what it implies - say TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_ALLOC. Then it means
other drivers can move that way if they wish.

Otherwise

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>

for the entire series, and next time we are both at the same conference
I owe you a a couple of beers at least !


  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-08 15:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-07 19:47 [PATCH 00/41] TTY buffer in tty_port -- prep no. 4 Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 01/41] TTY: pty, stop passing NULL to free_tty_struct Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 02/41] TTY: 68328serial, fix compilation Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 15:24   ` Alan Cox
2012-08-08 19:33     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 03/41] TTY: n_gsm, use tty_port_install Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 04/41] misc: pti, add const to pci_device_id table Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 05/41] misc: pti, pci drvdata cannot be NULL in ->remove Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 06/41] misc: pti, stop using iomap's unmap on ioremap space Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 07/41] misc: pti, move ->remove to the PCI code Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 08/41] misc: pti, do the opposite of ->probe in ->remove Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 09/41] misc: pti, fix fail paths Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 10/41] misc: pti, fix tty_port count Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 11/41] misc: pti, use tty_port_register_device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 12/41] mxser: allow overlapping vector Jiri Slaby
2012-08-13  1:50   ` Rusty Russell
2012-08-13  7:23     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-08-13  8:16       ` [PATCH] TTY: mxser, fix invalid module_parm permissions Jiri Slaby
2012-08-13  8:18       ` Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 13/41] TTY: ttyprintk, unregister tty driver on failure Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 14/41] TTY: ttyprintk, don't touch behind tty->write_buf Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 15/41] TTY: ttyprintk, initialize tty_port earlier Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 16/41] TTY: tty3270, free tty driver properly Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 17/41] TTY: pass flags to alloc_tty_driver Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 18/41] TTY: pty, switch to tty_alloc_driver Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 15:37   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-08-08 20:11     ` Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 22:19       ` Alan Cox
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 19/41] TTY: move allocations " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 20/41] TTY: add support for unnumbered device nodes Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 21/41] TTY: move cdev_add to tty_register_device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 22/41] TTY: use tty_port_register_device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 23/41] TTY: automatically create nodes for some drivers Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 24/41] TTY: tty_port, add some documentation Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 25/41] TTY: add tty_port_link_device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 26/41] TTY: use tty_port_link_device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 27/41] TTY: synclink_cs, sanitize fail paths Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 28/41] TTY: synclink_cs, use dynamic tty devices Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 29/41] TTY: synclink_cs, final cleanup in synclink_cs_init Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 30/41] TTY: moxa, convert to dynamic device Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 31/41] TTY: nfcon, add tty_port and link it Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 32/41] TTY: con3215, unset raw3215[line] Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 33/41] TTY: con3215, add tty install Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:47 ` [PATCH 34/41] TTY: i4l, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 35/41] TTY: synclink, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 36/41] TTY: synclinkmp, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 37/41] TTY: ircomm_tty, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 38/41] TTY: tty3270, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 39/41] TTY: hvc_console, " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 40/41] TTY: hvcs, clean hvcs_open a bit Jiri Slaby
2012-08-07 19:48 ` [PATCH 41/41] TTY: hvcs, add tty install Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 18/41] TTY: pty, switch to tty_alloc_driver Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 20:26   ` [PATCH v2 19/41] TTY: move allocations " Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 20:26   ` [PATCH v2 20/41] TTY: add support for unnumbered device nodes Jiri Slaby
2012-08-08 20:26   ` [PATCH v2 21/41] TTY: move cdev_add to tty_register_device Jiri Slaby

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