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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove pty_ops_bsd and pty_bsd_ioctl() as they're not used
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:40:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4079.1254249610@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.01.0909290936430.6996@localhost.localdomain>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Comments?

Perhaps add legacy pty support to the list of features to be removed and see
who howls.

>  static struct tty_driver *pty_driver, *pty_slave_driver;

These shouldn't be global variables.  They're only used within
legacy_pty_init().  That's a side issue, however.

Apart from that, it looks reasonable.

Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29 18:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-28 13:53 [PATCH] Remove pty_ops_bsd and pty_bsd_ioctl() as they're not used David Howells
2009-09-28 14:16 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-28 14:55   ` David Howells
2009-09-28 15:25     ` Alan Cox
2009-09-28 14:55   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-29 15:55     ` David Howells
2009-09-29 16:23       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-29 16:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2009-09-29 18:40           ` David Howells [this message]
2009-09-29 22:39             ` Alan Cox
2009-09-30 10:20         ` David Howells
2009-09-30 11:28           ` Alan Cox

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