Re: TTY Driver Open and Close Logic
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:48:40 +0000
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 07:58:46AM -0500, Telford002@aol.com wrote:
> I have been working on various serial drivers and I notice that physical
> driver close routine is called in all cases even if the physical driver
> open routine fails. That suggests to me that a lot of the MOD_DEC/INC_COUNT
> logic in serial.c and other physical serial drivers is incorrect. As
> serial.c seems usually to be compiled into the kernel the issue
> is not so important, but a lot of the other logic associated with
> open counts also seems incorrect. Is this observation correct?
Absolutely 100% correct.
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