Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:52:12 +0100 | Subject | Re: serial167 (was: Re: [RFC 0/5] tty: move stuff around) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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Hi Alan,
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:46, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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.
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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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