tty: Move the handling of the tty release logic

[linux-2.6-block.git] / include / linux / tty_driver.h

diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 04419c141b006d802185c209b506527488205020..80e72dc564a5b2de49f8c17c136adb0ace61682d 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -45,14 +45,9 @@
  *
  * void (*shutdown)(struct tty_struct * tty);
  *
- *     This routine is called synchronously when a particular tty device
- *     is closed for the last time freeing up the resources.
- *     Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
- *     This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
- *     via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
- *     Note that this hook may be called from *all* the contexts where one
- *     uses tty refcounting (e.g. tty_port_tty_get).
- *
+ *     This routine is called under the tty lock when a particular tty device
+ *     is closed for the last time. It executes before the tty resources
+ *     are freed so may execute while another function holds a tty kref.
  *
  * void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);
  *