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Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 11:48:32 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: TTY: tty_port questions
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:15:32 +0100
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:

> On 12.03.2012 11:53, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Another question, what is the purpose of tty_port->console?
> >> It seems to have no user.
> >
> > So the tty_port layer can in future know about whether it is a console
> > without a tty necessarily being present or referenceable.
> >
> >> Is tty_port really the right thing for a console driver like in the UML
> >> case?
> >
> > It will be. In order to fix the tty locking mess we need to shove a lot
> > of stuff whose lifetime is the lifetime of the physical port somewhere
> > else - the tty_port is that structure.
> >
> 
> "It will be" in terms of "not now"? ;-)

As in, it's the very next step on.

Alan