On Wednesday 01 June 2005 09:42, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 05:28:11PM -0500, Paul Fulghum wrote:
> > An unmodified ldisc driver (externally maintained) will continue to call
> > tty_register_ldisc with NULL, but the new behavior will be to set the
> > ldisc pointer to NULL but have LDISC_FLAG_DEFINED set.
> >
> > If you feel it is absolutely necessary to add this new function
> > for cosmetic reasons, then leave the old behavior in place
> > and make tty_unregister_ldisc a wrapper to tty_register_ldisc
> > that uses a NULL pointer.
>
> Nah, we don't want to allow staying out of tree folks out of sync. Adding
> a BUG_ON for ldisk beeing NULL is much more reasoable.
Why add BUG_ON?
tty_register_ldisc(N_FOO, NULL);
...
tty_ldiscs[disc] = *new_ldisc; <= NULL
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