From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754397Ab0IQE4W (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:56:22 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42360 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751551Ab0IQE4U (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:56:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:56:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100916.215639.172549193.davem@davemloft.net> To: alan@linux.intel.com Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, drosenberg@vsecurity.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> References: <20100916171747.25987.33573.stgit@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Alan Cox Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:21:06 +0100 > Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never > going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem > away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job. > > --- > > Alan Cox (3): > tty: icount changeover for other main devices > tty: Convert the USB drivers to the new icount interface > tty: Make tiocgicount a handler This is a good plan for the next merge window, but for the current -rc series and -stable we'd better just fix the individual cases.