Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:40:42 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 60/80] tty: extract the pty init time special cases |
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> This patch seems to break any other pseudo tty drivers, (ie driver->type > ==TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY) since not all the tty functions needed for the > driver's new driver->install method are exported from tty_io.c. The > function symbols that need to be exported from /drivers/char/tty_io.c are
I did ask at the time what other PTY drivers there were as and what .config case in the kernel needed those symbols. If you only need them for an out of tree driver then they can stay out of tree until that driver is merged.
Alan
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