From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] ircomm - set owner get rid of MOD_INC/MOD_DEC Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 18:07:59 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F414E3F.9090908@pobox.com> References: <20030818111746.34b9e52b.shemminger@osdl.org> <20030818184059.GA6457@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , irda-users@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: jt@hpl.hp.com In-Reply-To: <20030818184059.GA6457@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > >>Ircomm in 2.6.0-test3 can just set the owner field in the tty structure >>like other drivers, and not mess with MOD_INC/MOD_DEC. > > > You missed a couple of comments. I sent the more complete > version of the exact same patch a few weeks ago to Jeff Garzik, you > may want to check with Jeff what the status on this. > Of course, I would prefer the "more complete" version to go > in. > > By the way, because of Jeff's turnaround, we are going to have > this problem a lot. All my pending IrDA patches are listed on my web > page, you may want to check it : Yes, I have "ircomm module fix" and "NSC '39x fixes" queued, and going to Linus today with some more net driver stuff. Jeff