linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb/serial: Add compat

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Date:	Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:03:35 -0500
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...hat.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	Keith Packard <keithp@...thp.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb/serial: Add compat_ioctl pass-through

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 12:43:02PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> I've just checked all tty device drivers. The only one using the file
> pointer in ->ioctl, ->tiocmget and ->tiocmset is serial_core, which
> passes it to tty_hung_up_p(). That could easily be changed to check
> (tty->flags & TTY_HUPPED) AFAICT.
> 
> Maybe Alan can comment on this. I think the code would become cleaner
> if we dropped the file argument to these three functions throughout
> the tty layer, but it's probably not worth the pain to change themm
> call.

Removing it seems a bit pointless as someone will one day no doubt need
to put it back again

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