Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:40:42 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: bmckinlay@perle.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 60/80] tty: extract the pty init time special cases
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> This patch seems to break any other pseudo tty drivers, (ie driver->type 
> ==TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_PTY) since not all the tty functions needed for the 
> driver's new driver->install method are exported from tty_io.c.  The 
> function symbols that need to be exported from /drivers/char/tty_io.c are 

I did ask at the time what other PTY drivers there were as and
what .config case in the kernel needed those symbols. If you only need
them for an out of tree driver then they can stay out of tree until that
driver is merged.

Alan
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