Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:08:14 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tty: the briq panel isn't a tty, make it use its own locking | From | Josh Boyer <> |
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On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:56 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:42:27 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote: > >> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >> > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> >> > >> > The driver appears to be terminall broken, if nobody is maintaining it then >> > perhaps it should go into staging and the out-tray. >> >> Hrm, I don't think anybody maintains it but I do have a BriQ somewhere >> in storage, so I suppose I could pick it up, not that I need another >> crap driver to deal with right now though... > > In which case can we just stuff it into the tree, or take the briq driver > out into staging as this is the last blocker on tackling the tty_lock > entirely in the tty layer
I'd vote for out to staging. Don't rely on BenH to make sane decisions when it comes to deprecating stuff nobody uses anymore. I mean... he's only just now dropping iSeries support.
josh
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