linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 00/44] ldisc patchset

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Message-ID: <CANN689F_+TuMKhFQHLQko9Yr7H_Z-AscKzvaPjbnTa6STDNRNA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Mar 2013 05:13:05 -0700
From:	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
To:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/44] ldisc patchset

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:25 -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
>> Its not too late to run away from it and preserve your sanity (as well
>> as that of the next person working on the tty layer :)
>
> The long-term plan is to migrate it to lib so it won't be a maintenance
> burden to tty.

That only moves the problem though, and makes sense only if we know of
another place where an unfair rwsem is desired...

-- 
Michel "Walken" Lespinasse
A program is never fully debugged until the last user dies.
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