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tty: Document locking for tty driver methods

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The tty core calls the tty driver's open, close and hangup
methods holding the tty lock.

Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Peter Hurley 2014-06-16 09:16:58 -04:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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commit ed617e4423
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* This routine is mandatory; if this routine is not filled in,
* the attempted open will fail with ENODEV.
*
* Required method.
*
* Required method. Called with tty lock held.
*
* void (*close)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * filp);
*
* This routine is called when a particular tty device is closed.
* Note: called even if the corresponding open() failed.
*
* Required method.
* Required method. Called with tty lock held.
*
* void (*shutdown)(struct tty_struct * tty);
*
@ -172,6 +172,8 @@
*
* Optional:
*
* Called with tty lock held.
*
* int (*break_ctl)(struct tty_struct *tty, int state);
*
* This optional routine requests the tty driver to turn on or