linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] tty: close registration race and add termios reset feature

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Message-ID: <20170331125812.GA19626@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:58:12 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] tty: close registration race and add termios reset
 feature

On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 03:39:33PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
> The first patch in this series closes a race between tty device
> registration and tty open due to the character device being registered
> before the class device has been registered.
> 
> The second patch removes some obsolete references to termios_locked, and
> the final patch makes sure that any saved termios state is reset during
> device registration when reusing a minor number.

Thanks for doing this, I had forgotten all about that report last year
that this fixes up.  Much appreciated.

greg k-h