tty: clarify that not all ttys have a class device
Commit 30004ac9 ("tty: add tty_struct->dev pointer to corresponding device instance") added a struct device pointer field to struct tty_struct which was populated with the corresponding tty class device during initialisation. Unfortunately, not all ttys have a class device (e.g. pseudoterminals and serdev) in which case the device pointer will be set to NULL, something which have bit driver authors over the years. In retrospect perhaps this field should never have been added, but let's at least document the current behaviour. Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210409073512.6876-1-johan@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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