Re: [PATCH] tty/n_gsm.c: do not clear gsm_mux entry when the gsm is not closed

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:23:49PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> On 10/09/2014 03:13 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 03:01:46PM -0400, Peter Hurley wrote:
> >> On 07/28/2014 11:13 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 03:16:25PM +0800, xinhui.pan wrote:
> >>>>> Why can't you do dynamic reference counting of your structure, that
> >>>>> would allow you to get rid of your global array, right?
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for your nice comments.
> >>>> Struct gsm has a ref-count already. :)
> >>>
> >>> Then you should be fine, no need to keep it in an array.
> >>>
> >>>> And also adding a ref-count is a little hard to me. :(
> >>>> This global array is used to keep tracking the gsms that stands for the gsmttyXX.
> >>>
> >>> You shouldn't need that at all, just use a list, you don't care what the
> >>> XX number is within the driver, just allocate a new one with the next
> >>> available number and you should be fine.
> >>>
> >>>> and it can tell us if we can create a new gsm. :)
> >>>
> >>> You should always be able to create a new gsm if you need to :)
> >>>
> >>>> In gsm_init we set *gsm_tty_driver = alloc_tty_driver(256);*
> >>>
> >>> Why limit to 256?  Just use a list, and a idr structure to allocate the
> >>> minor number, and all should be good.
> >>
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> This is still broken in the gsm driver.
> >>
> >> As much as I'd like to see someone take ownership of the gsm driver and
> >> do this 'the right way', I think until that happens we should consider
> >> fixing the reuse-while-in-use error.
> > 
> > What happened to the gsm driver maintainers?
> 
> hahaha
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/tty/n_gsm.c 
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (supporter:TTY LAYER)
> Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> (supporter:TTY LAYER)
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

Damm, yet-another-codebase I'm maintainer of and didn't know it...