* Re: [PATCH] n_tty: Ensure reader restarts worker for next reader
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@ 2013-11-07 20:01 ` Peter Hurley
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From: Peter Hurley @ 2013-11-07 20:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Peter Hurley, Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: linux-kernel, Linus Torvalds, Mikael Pettersson, Andrew Morton,
linux-serial, stable
On 11/07/2013 01:59 PM, Peter Hurley wrote:
> A departing reader must restart a flush_to_ldisc() worker _before_
> the next reader enters the read loop; this is to avoid the new reader
> concluding no more i/o is available and prematurely exiting, when the
> old reader simply hasn't re-started the worker yet.
>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org # 3.12
> Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Greg,
I fluffed the stable cc: Please pick this up for 3.12.1.
Regards,
Peter Hurley
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