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* [PATCH -next] n_tty: Remove stale read lock comment
@ 2014-10-16 19:36 Peter Hurley
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From: Peter Hurley @ 2014-10-16 19:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: Jiri Slaby, linux-serial, linux-kernel, Peter Hurley

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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