Re: BKL in tty code?

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:05:32 +0000

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:58:29PM -0800, James Simmons wrote:
> All the locking should be moved to the upper tty layers. Why implement the
> wheel over and over agin for each type of tty device.

By that statement, I can see that you haven't really done any analysis of
the tty nor serial locking. Its not a simple case of "just add a per tty
semaphore in the tty layer and everything will be fine".

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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