Am Donnerstag, 29. März 2007 23:29 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:15:00AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as recently discussed on lkml the tty layer does call close() if
> > an open() fails. Usb-serial does not handle this correctly. It does
> > handle the first open() failing by checking the open count, but if
> > a second open() fails, the close() will free the resources associated
> > with the first open.
>
> Why can't we just fix the tty layer instead?
Do you want to audit every other serial driver to make sure cleanup isn't
deferred to close?
Regards
Oliver
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