linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup release

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Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 07:01:00 -0500
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:	alan@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: cleanup release_mem

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:12:44PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> release_mem contains two copies of exactly the same code.  Refactor
> these into a new helper, release_tty.  The only change in behaviour
> is that the driver reference count is now decremented after the
> master tty has been freed instead of before.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>

Please propogate the mutex_ FIXME comment to both functions as it may
well need to cover tty->link

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