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authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>2008-10-13 10:41:30 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-13 09:51:42 -0700
commitfeebed6515a113eeb33919e9557a8b9710ea627c (patch)
tree0461178ee0c5e16ea90023e4b6386cb5c57d3391 /security
parentbf7a06bcce205705ea5c7675cbb8ea9239ea30a0 (diff)
tty: shutdown method
Right now there are various drivers that try to use tty->count to know when they get the final close. Aristeau Rozanski showed while debugging the vt sysfs race that this isn't entirely safe. Instead of driver side tricks to work around this introduce a shutdown which is called when the tty is being destructed. This also means that the shutdown method is tied into the refcounting. Use this to rework the console close/sysfs logic. Remove lots of special case code from the tty core code. The pty code can now have a shutdown() method that replaces the special case hackery in the tree free up paths. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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