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Date:	Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:08:25 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] TTY: serial, remove tasklet for tty_wakeup

On Tuesday 12 July 2011 22:43:20 Jiri Slaby wrote:
> tty_wakeup can be called from any context. So there is no need to have
> an extra tasklet for calling that. Hence save some space and remove
> the tasklet completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>

This is probably ok, but strictly speaking, we we cannot call 
tty_wakeup from any context: not while holding the ldisc_mutex,
i.e. from  ld->ops->{open,close}.

I don't see a reason why we would ever do that, but it's the
only explanation I have why the tasklet was introduced intially.

	Arnd
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