Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2012 09:04:07 -0800 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 9/9] TTY: call tty_port_destroy in the rest of drivers |
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On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:52:09AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > > After commit "TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port", the tty buffers are > > not freed in some drivers. This is because tty_port_destructor is not > > called whenever a tty_port is freed. This was an assumption I counted > > with but was unfortunately untrue. So fix the drivers to fulfil this > > assumption. > > > > To be sure, the TTY buffers (and later some stuff) are gone along with > > the tty_port, we have to call tty_port_destroy at tear-down places. > > This is mostly where the structure containing a tty_port is freed. > > This patch does exactly that -- put tty_port_destroy at those places. > > > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> > > Hi Jiri & Greg & Alan, > > I'd be more than willing to fixup staging/fwserial against this series > but I'm unclear on the mechanics since this series isn't in staging-next > and staging/fwserial isn't in tty-next.
The series is in tty-next, right? Make it against linux-next, which has the trees combined, and I'll work to figure it out when/where to apply it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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