Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer

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From: Rodolfo Giometti
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010 - 2:32 am

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 01:06:42AM +0400, Alexander Gordeev wrote:

If you remove these functions you can't be sure anymore that nobodies
may call pps_event() over a non existent device...


By dropping pps_get_source you may be here by a call from (i.e.) a
serial port driver whose doesn't know if your PPS source is gone or
not...

I don't understand how your modifications may resolve this problem.


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[PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Alexander Gordeev, (Wed Aug 4, 2:06 pm)
Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Rodolfo Giometti, (Thu Aug 5, 2:32 am)
Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Alexander Gordeev, (Thu Aug 5, 4:42 am)
Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Rodolfo Giometti, (Thu Aug 5, 5:31 am)
Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Alexander Gordeev, (Mon Aug 9, 12:53 am)
Re: [PATCHv3 05/16] pps: access pps device by direct pointer, Rodolfo Giometti, (Mon Aug 9, 5:47 am)