Re: [PATCH 9/9] TTY: call tty_port_destroy in the rest of drivers

From: Peter Hurley
Date: Tue Nov 27 2012 - 11:52:14 EST


On Thu, 2012-11-15 at 09:49 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> After commit "TTY: move tty buffers to tty_port", the tty buffers are
> not freed in some drivers. This is because tty_port_destructor is not
> called whenever a tty_port is freed. This was an assumption I counted
> with but was unfortunately untrue. So fix the drivers to fulfil this
> assumption.
>
> To be sure, the TTY buffers (and later some stuff) are gone along with
> the tty_port, we have to call tty_port_destroy at tear-down places.
> This is mostly where the structure containing a tty_port is freed.
> This patch does exactly that -- put tty_port_destroy at those places.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>

Hi Jiri & Greg & Alan,

I'd be more than willing to fixup staging/fwserial against this series
but I'm unclear on the mechanics since this series isn't in staging-next
and staging/fwserial isn't in tty-next.

Regards,
Peter Hurley



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