Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:53:12 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: TTY: tty_port questions |
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> Another question, what is the purpose of tty_port->console? > It seems to have no user.
So the tty_port layer can in future know about whether it is a console without a tty necessarily being present or referenceable.
> Is tty_port really the right thing for a console driver like in the UML > case?
It will be. In order to fix the tty locking mess we need to shove a lot of stuff whose lifetime is the lifetime of the physical port somewhere else - the tty_port is that structure.
Alan
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