Re: [PATCH] tty: the briq panel isn't a tty, make it use its ownlocking

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Feb 23 2012 - 17:54:07 EST


On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:42:27 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-02-23 at 13:39 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > From: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The driver appears to be terminall broken, if nobody is maintaining it then
> > perhaps it should go into staging and the out-tray.
>
> Hrm, I don't think anybody maintains it but I do have a BriQ somewhere
> in storage, so I suppose I could pick it up, not that I need another
> crap driver to deal with right now though...

In which case can we just stuff it into the tree, or take the briq driver
out into staging as this is the last blocker on tackling the tty_lock
entirely in the tty layer

Alan
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