Re: [PATCH v2] staging: gdm7240: a TTY rewrite according to thelatest TTY APIs

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Aug 14 2013 - 17:12:07 EST


On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 07:46:01PM +0900, Won Kang wrote:
> Removed the old style reference countings and termios.
> Renamed variables to meaninful ones.
>
> Fixed mis-use of mutex for gdm_table. gdm_table is refered to only
> inside tty_install and port destrcut, and usb callbacks use internal
> reference which was saved during urb submission
>
> Signed-off-by: Won Kang <wonkang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: fixed mutex bug, added ChangeLog, added missing kfree
> drivers/staging/gdm724x/ChangeLog | 62 ++++++++

Why a changelog? The kernel has a changelog, in the git commit log, if
every individual driver had a separate changelog, the tree would be a
mess, right? It also looks like you included things that are already in
the kernel changelog (patches from me and others), so this is duplicated
effort.

> drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_mux.c | 9 +-
> drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_mux.h | 14 +-
> drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_tty.c | 295 +++++++++++++++++--------------------
> drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_tty.h | 36 +++--
> 5 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 179 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 drivers/staging/gdm724x/ChangeLog
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm724x/ChangeLog b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/ChangeLog
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..506e60e
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/gdm724x/ChangeLog
> @@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
> +2013-08-13 Won Kang <wonkang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> + * Fixed mis-use of mutex for gdm_table. gdm_table is refered to only
> + * inside tty_install and port destrcut, and usb callbacks use internal
> + * reference which was saved during urb submission
> +
> +2013-08-09 Won Kang <wonkang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> + * A rewrite was needed to properly use latest TTY AAPI
> + *
> + * Original TTY codes were written from kernel 2.6.x, doing tty reference
> + * counting within the this driver. This is fixed to use tty core APIs.
> + *
> + * The usage count of tty port is no longer handled by the driver.
> + *
> + * termios members of tty_operations as the ports are virtual and
> + * have no real effect.
> + *
> + * Renamed variables to be more clear as they were confusing due to the
> + * similarities with the tty core structures.

Please send these two patches, not mushed together as one, so I can
apply them that way.

thanks,

greg k-h
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