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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:52:09AM -0500, Peter Hurley wrote:
> 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.

The series is in tty-next, right?  Make it against linux-next, which has
the trees combined, and I'll work to figure it out when/where to apply
it.

thanks,

greg k-h
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