Hi Uwe, I wanted to test the set but unfortunately this patch does not apply. See below for the apparent reason. On 12/17/19 5:58 PM, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Introduce a new function tty_kopen_shared() that yields a struct > tty_struct. The semantic difference to tty_kopen() is that the tty is > expected to be used already. So rename tty_kopen() to > tty_kopen_exclusive() for clearness, adapt the single user and put the > common code in a new static helper function. > > tty_kopen_shared is to be used to implement an LED trigger for tty > devices in one of the next patches. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c | 2 +- > drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++--------- > include/linux/tty.h | 5 ++- > 3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c > index 5a9eff08cb96..e9db06eae875 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static int spk_ttyio_initialise_ldisc(struct spk_synth *synth) > if (ret) > return ret; > > - tty = tty_kopen(dev); > + tty = tty_kopen_exclusive(dev); > if (IS_ERR(tty)) > return PTR_ERR(tty); > > diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > index a1453fe10862..b718666ce73c 100644 > --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c > @@ -1875,22 +1875,7 @@ static struct tty_driver *tty_lookup_driver(dev_t device, struct file *filp, > return driver; > } > > -/** > - * tty_kopen - open a tty device for kernel > - * @device: dev_t of device to open > - * > - * Opens tty exclusively for kernel. Performs the driver lookup, > - * makes sure it's not already opened and performs the first-time > - * tty initialization. > - * > - * Returns the locked initialized &tty_struct > - * > - * Claims the global tty_mutex to serialize: > - * - concurrent first-time tty initialization > - * - concurrent tty driver removal w/ lookup > - * - concurrent tty removal from driver table > - */ > -struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device) > +static struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device, int shared) > { > struct tty_struct *tty; > struct tty_driver *driver; In mainline, even in v5.5-rc2 we have here NULL assignment: struct tty_driver *driver = NULL; > @@ -1905,7 +1890,7 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device) > -- Best regards, Jacek Anaszewski