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SubjectRe: [RFC 7/9] ppp: use big tty mutex
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On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:56 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> ppp interacts with the tty layer, so it should
> take the BTM instead of the BKL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ppp_generic.c |   29 +++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> index 6d61602..bc89a1b 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ppp_generic.c
> @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
>  #include <linux/if_arp.h>
>  #include <linux/ip.h>
>  #include <linux/tcp.h>
> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
> +#include <linux/tty.h>
>  #include <linux/spinlock.h>
>  #include <linux/rwsem.h>
>  #include <linux/stddef.h>
> @@ -362,7 +362,8 @@ static const int npindex_to_ethertype[NUM_NP] = {
>  */
>  static int ppp_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -       cycle_kernel_lock();
> +       tty_lock();
> +       tty_unlock();

I don't really get your point here. :) Why do you do this?
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