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From: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>,
	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/13] tty.h cleanups
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 16:25:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YG8SUl+B8+76JZwV@hovoldconsulting.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210408125134.3016837-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 02:51:21PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Turns out there is a lot of tty-internal stuff in include/linux/tty.h
> that do not belong there.  Create a internal-to-the-tty-layer .h file
> for these types of things and move function prototypes to it instead of
> being in the system-wide header file.
> 
> Along the way clean up the use of some old tty-only debugging macros and
> use the in-kernel dev_*() calls instead.

I'm afraid that's not a good idea since not all ttys have a
corresponding class device. Notable exception include pseudo terminals
and serdev.

While dev_printk() can handle a NULL device argument without crashing,
we'll actually lose log information by removing the tty printk helpers.

Johan

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-08 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-08 12:51 [PATCH 00/13] tty.h cleanups Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 01/13] tty: create internal tty.h file Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 02/13] tty: tty.h: remove tty_info() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 03/13] tty: remove tty_err() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 04/13] tty: remove tty_notice() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 05/13] tty: remove tty_warn() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 13:47   ` Tetsuo Handa
2021-04-08 18:03     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 06/13] tty: remove tty_info_ratelimited() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 07/13] tty: remove tty_debug() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 08/13] tty: audit: move some local functions out of tty.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 09/13] tty: move some internal tty lock enums and " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 10/13] tty: make tty_release_redirect() static Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 11/13] tty: move some tty-only functions to drivers/tty/tty.h Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 12/13] tty: remove tty_driver_name() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 12:51 ` [PATCH 13/13] tty: clean include/linux/tty.h up Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 17:51   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-08 14:25 ` Johan Hovold [this message]
2021-04-08 18:01   ` [PATCH 00/13] tty.h cleanups Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-09  7:32     ` Johan Hovold
2021-04-15  8:21       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-04-15 14:14         ` Johan Hovold
2021-04-15 14:53           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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