[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/3] Move parts of init_dev() into new functions

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Aug 26 09:40:20 PDT 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> In the case of the initial open you don't yet know the tty pointer and
> may be creating it. SO the tty isn't a reference because it doesn't exist.
> 

Got it.  I was under the (apparently mistaken) notion that only pty tty 
structures were created dynamically.

	-hpa
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