Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:48:32 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: TTY: tty_port questions |
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:15:32 +0100 Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> On 12.03.2012 11:53, Alan Cox wrote: > >> 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. > > > > "It will be" in terms of "not now"? ;-)
As in, it's the very next step on.
Alan
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