linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/70] tty: Ldisc revamp

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Date:	Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:39:12 +0200
From:	Louis Rilling <Louis.Rilling@...labs.com>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/70] tty: Ldisc revamp

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:58:05PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
> 
> Move the line disciplines towards a conventional ->ops arrangement. For the
> moment the actual 'tty_ldisc' struct in the tty is kept as part of the tty
> struct but this can then be changed if it turns out that when it all settles
> down we want to refcount ldiscs separately to the tty.
> 
> Pull the ldisc code out of /proc and put it with our ldisc code.
> 

[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
> index e94bee0..ab1dd0a 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c

[...]

> @@ -1386,7 +1467,7 @@ static void tty_reset_termios(struct tty_struct *tty)
>   *	do_tty_hangup		-	actual handler for hangup events
>   *	@work: tty device
>   *
> - *	This can be called by the "eventd" kernel thread.  That is process
> +k *	This can be called by the "eventd" kernel thread.  That is process
>   *	synchronous but doesn't hold any locks, so we need to make sure we
>   *	have the appropriate locks for what we're doing.
>   *

Sorry for such a trivial comment, but the leading 'k' above looks like a typo.

Louis

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