On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 02:51:47PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: > Hi, > > this is the first series of patches which allow tty buffers to be > moved from tty_struct (present from open to close/hangup) to tty_port > (present as long as the device). This will allow us to get rid of the > tty refcounting in the interrupt service routines and other hot paths > after we are done. This is because we won't need to handle races among > ISRs, timers, hangups and others, because tty_port lives as long as an > interrupt/timer tick may occur. Unlike tty_struct. > > In this series, only first few drivers are converted to use > tty_port. The rest is to come later. > > The first few patches are simple fixes/cleanups which emerged during > the code investigation here and there. Further serialP header removal > happens there. Finally, some drivers are forced to use tty_port, which > will become a necessity in the future. > > Simserial (ia64) and standard x86 stuff were runtime-tested. The rest > is only checked to be compilation-errors free. > > Final remark: simserial stuff depends on 4 patches sent to Tony Luck > last week. They are in hist tree and -next already. Where are those patches at specifically? Can you send them to me so I could include them in my tree? Otherwise I can only apply the first 27 of these patches (which I have now done.) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-serial" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
