From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/13] tty: untangle locking of wait_until_sent
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 21:27:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100524212755.5aa26fcd@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100524190038.GH1292@ucw.cz>
On Mon, 24 May 2010 21:00:38 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c | 2 +-
> >
> > Semi-defunct at best
> >
> > This makes me think that now might be a good time to consign the broken
> > crap to the bitbucket unless someone stands up with hardware and who
> > wants to maintain it.
>
> ircomm_tty is fairly common hardware, afaict, it is just not used
> often. Main use case would be backup of your phone numbers, afaict.
> It would be good to keep it for once-in-a-blue-moon use...
Fine - send patches. Last time I looked at it I couldn't believe it still
worked and the last box I had with Irda capability exploded (literally)
some years ago.
I don't I've seen an Irda capable phone for a while either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-24 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-04 22:33 [PATCH v2 00/13] BKL conversion in tty layer Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 01/13] tty: replace BKL with a new tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 02/13] tty: make atomic_write_lock release tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 10:57 ` Alan Cox
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 03/13] tty: make tty_port->mutex nest under tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 04/13] tty: make termios mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 16:11 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 05/13] tty: make ldisc_mutex " Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 06/13] tty: never hold BTM while getting tty_mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 07/13] tty: give up BTM in acquire_console_sem Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 08/13] tty: release tty lock when blocking Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 09/13] tty: implement BTM as mutex instead of BKL Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 10/13] tty: untangle locking of wait_until_sent Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2010-05-05 21:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 22:51 ` Greg KH
2010-05-05 23:52 ` Alan Cox
2010-05-24 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2010-05-24 20:27 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 11/13] tty: remove tty_lock_nested Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 12/13] tty: remove release_tty_lock/reacquire_tty_lock Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-04 22:33 ` [PATCH 13/13] tty: turn ldisc_mutex into a regular mutex Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 9:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-05-05 10:52 ` [PATCH v2 00/13] BKL conversion in tty layer Alan Cox
2010-05-05 12:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
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