Re: serial167 (was: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around)

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Hi Alan,

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:46, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As serial167 is now in staging in Linus tree...

It still builds in 2.6.38. What is unsecure about it? If nothing,
please move it back,
as the whole MVME167 platform is pretty useless without its console driver.

It has no reference counting and it doesn't use tty_port objects.

[...]

Many thanks for your elaborate (and valid) explanation!
I'll let the VME users sort it out...

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

            Geert

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