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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Shankarmurthy, Akshay" <akshay.s@ti.com>
Cc: "linux-serial@vger.kernel.org" <linux-serial@vger.kernel.org>,
	"alan@linux.intel.com" <alan@linux.intel.com>,
	"gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"paul.gortmaker@windriver.com" <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
	"jamie@jamieiles.com" <jamie@jamieiles.com>,
	"swarren@nvidia.com" <swarren@nvidia.com>,
	"dianders@chromium.org" <dianders@chromium.org>,
	"davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com" 
	<davinci-linux-open-source@linux.davincidsp.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: 8250: Add cpufreq support
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:47:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120418204701.31238fe7@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6F6B80BD2E18844D97BB4B51FE3705C83E92A183@DBDE01.ent.ti.com>

> As per my understanding, tty count keeps the count of tty_open and tty_release, that is
> how many open and close happened on the tty device file(/dev/ttyS*).
> The requirement here is a tty count check, if it is greater than zero then only it should
> proceed for further execution. 

The physical port has a different lifetime to the struct tty_struct
(which may change many times within the lifetime of the port). You can't
simply go from the port to a tty struct and assume this is safe and will
not change.

> Kindly elaborate more on the same if it's not correct.

Look at how tty_port_tty_get is used

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-18 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-03  6:03 Shankarmurthy, Akshay
2012-04-03  9:55 ` Alan Cox
2012-04-05 10:40   ` Shankarmurthy, Akshay
2012-04-05 10:53     ` Alan Cox
2012-04-12  5:21       ` Shankarmurthy, Akshay
2012-04-12  9:47         ` Alan Cox
2012-04-17  9:43           ` Shankarmurthy, Akshay
2012-04-18 19:47             ` Alan Cox [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-01-13 12:35 Chaithrika U S
2010-01-13 13:44 ` Alan Cox
2010-01-18 13:17   ` Chaithrika U S

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