From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next] n_tty: Remove stale read lock comment
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:36:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413488198-13754-1-git-send-email-peter@hurleysoftware.com> (raw)
The stale comment refers to lock behavior which was eliminated in
commit 6d76bd2618535c581f1673047b8341fd291abc67,
n_tty: Make N_TTY ldisc receive path lockless.
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
---
drivers/tty/n_tty.c | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
index 379f60c..38ac7b9 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/n_tty.c
@@ -2248,8 +2248,6 @@ static ssize_t n_tty_read(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
nr--;
}
- /* The copy function takes the read lock and handles
- locking internally for this case */
uncopied = copy_from_read_buf(tty, &b, &nr);
uncopied += copy_from_read_buf(tty, &b, &nr);
if (uncopied) {
--
2.1.1
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