[patch v2 1/6] tty: export tty_open_by_driver

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Sun May 21 06:09:02 UTC 2017


On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 06:45:32PM +0100, Okash Khawaja wrote:
> This exports tty_open_by_driver so that it can be called from other places inside the kernel. The checks for null file pointer are based on Alan Cox's patch here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg1215095.html. Description below is quoted from it:

Any non-staging users?  Please don't add new APIs with proper in-kernel
users (and staging doesn't count for that).


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