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authorKevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>2012-12-26 20:43:41 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-01-15 21:57:44 -0800
commitef4f527c48c8fcbb5e35dafaef4f9097f5e9d901 (patch)
tree22eedeb970323ae520a4d674e6e9e56eead9945f /drivers
parenta205a56dc24811a2879572e52c902a38425a4473 (diff)
tty: Fix comments that reference BKL, eventd, old paths
Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c18
-rw-r--r--drivers/tty/tty_io.c2
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
index 82d7ce8c9409..ba7863bbbb4d 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/serial/serial_core.c
@@ -1309,9 +1309,10 @@ static void uart_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty,
}
/*
- * In 2.4.5, calls to this will be serialized via the BKL in
- * linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c:tty_release()
- * linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c:do_tty_handup()
+ * Calls to uart_close() are serialised via the tty_lock in
+ * drivers/tty/tty_io.c:tty_release()
+ * drivers/tty/tty_io.c:do_tty_hangup()
+ * This runs from a workqueue and can sleep for a _short_ time only.
*/
static void uart_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
{
@@ -1438,10 +1439,9 @@ static void uart_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct *tty, int timeout)
}
/*
- * This is called with the BKL held in
- * linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c:do_tty_hangup()
- * We're called from the eventd thread, so we can sleep for
- * a _short_ time only.
+ * Calls to uart_hangup() are serialised by the tty_lock in
+ * drivers/tty/tty_io.c:do_tty_hangup()
+ * This runs from a workqueue and can sleep for a _short_ time only.
*/
static void uart_hangup(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
@@ -1522,8 +1522,8 @@ static void uart_dtr_rts(struct tty_port *port, int onoff)
}
/*
- * calls to uart_open are serialised by the BKL in
- * fs/char_dev.c:chrdev_open()
+ * Calls to uart_open are serialised by the tty_lock in
+ * drivers/tty/tty_io.c:tty_open()
* Note that if this fails, then uart_close() _will_ be called.
*
* In time, we want to scrap the "opening nonpresent ports"
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index da9fde850754..54a254ab85c7 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -536,7 +536,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_wakeup);
* __tty_hangup - actual handler for hangup events
* @work: tty device
*
- * This can be called by the "eventd" kernel thread. That is process
+ * This can be called by a "kworker" kernel thread. That is process
* synchronous but doesn't hold any locks, so we need to make sure we
* have the appropriate locks for what we're doing.
*