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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2012-07-17 17:06:57 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-17 09:13:38 -0700
commit36b3c070d2346c890d690d71f6eab02f8c511137 (patch)
tree1a1345329e3827eec3cf0de70eac2b2f1d663b55 /include/linux/tty_driver.h
parent3db1ddb725dcd9a2bb32be2b64d0688c3e1c4579 (diff)
tty: Move the handling of the tty release logic
Now that we don't have tty->termios tied to drivers->tty we can untangle the logic here. In addition we can push the removal logic out of the destructor path. At that point we can think about sorting out tty_port and console and all the other ugly hangovers. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/tty_driver.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty_driver.h11
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 04419c141b00..80e72dc564a5 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -45,14 +45,9 @@
*
* void (*shutdown)(struct tty_struct * tty);
*
- * This routine is called synchronously when a particular tty device
- * is closed for the last time freeing up the resources.
- * Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
- * This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
- * via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
- * Note that this hook may be called from *all* the contexts where one
- * uses tty refcounting (e.g. tty_port_tty_get).
- *
+ * This routine is called under the tty lock when a particular tty device
+ * is closed for the last time. It executes before the tty resources
+ * are freed so may execute while another function holds a tty kref.
*
* void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);
*