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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 09:56:23 +0100 From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> To: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> Cc: gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, alan@...ux.intel.com, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jirislaby@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/68] TTY buffer in tty_port -- prep no. 1 Hi Jiri, On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 14:51, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz> wrote: > this is the first series of patches which allow tty buffers to be > moved from tty_struct (present from open to close/hangup) to tty_port > (present as long as the device). This will allow us to get rid of the > tty refcounting in the interrupt service routines and other hot paths > after we are done. This is because we won't need to handle races among > ISRs, timers, hangups and others, because tty_port lives as long as an > interrupt/timer tick may occur. Unlike tty_struct. > > In this series, only first few drivers are converted to use > tty_port. The rest is to come later. > > The first few patches are simple fixes/cleanups which emerged during > the code investigation here and there. Further serialP header removal > happens there. Finally, some drivers are forced to use tty_port, which > will become a necessity in the future. > > Simserial (ia64) and standard x86 stuff were runtime-tested. The rest > is only checked to be compilation-errors free. I had a look at all 19 patches touching amiserial, and they look fine. So Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> Thanks for the cleanup! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@...ux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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