From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bmckinlay@perle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 60/80] tty: extract the pty init time special cases
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:40:42 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090122124042.7251ff0f@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF87B1346C.1E63B3D8-ON85257546.0006F3DA-85257546.000CF300@perle.com>
> This patch seems to break any other pseudo tty drivers, (ie driver->type
> ==TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY) since not all the tty functions needed for the
> driver's new driver->install method are exported from tty_io.c. The
> function symbols that need to be exported from /drivers/char/tty_io.c are
I did ask at the time what other PTY drivers there were as and
what .config case in the kernel needed those symbols. If you only need
them for an out of tree driver then they can stay out of tree until that
driver is merged.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-22 12:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-22 2:16 bmckinlay
2009-01-22 12:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-01-28 20:36 ` bmckinlay
2009-01-28 20:47 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-29 18:30 ` bmckinlay
2009-01-29 19:34 ` Alan Cox
2009-02-02 15:42 ` bmckinlay
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-10-13 9:31 [PATCH 00/80] TTY updates for 2.6.28 Alan Cox
2008-10-13 9:42 ` [PATCH 60/80] tty: extract the pty init time special cases Alan Cox
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