From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add sysfs class support for vc devices [10/10]
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:17:38 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040116111738.74636496.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1074279897.23742.754.camel@nosferatu.lan>
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 06:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > This patch add sysfs support for vc char devices.
> > >
> > > Note, Andrew Morton has reported some very strange oopses with this
> > > patch, that I can not reproduce at all. If anyone else also has
> > > problems with this patch, please let me know.
> >
> > It seems to have magically healed itself :(
> >
> > Several people were hitting it. We shall see.
>
> Might it be due to the vt-locking-fixes patch?
>
No, I was able to reproduce the oops with just two of Greg's patches on
bare 2.6.1-rcX.
It was some refcounting problem in the tty layer. 100% deterministic, not
a race.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-16 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-15 20:40 [PATCH] sysfs class patch update [00/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:41 ` [PATCH] add class_simple support [01/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:41 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for input devices [02/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:41 ` [PATCH] add class support for lp devices [03/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:41 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for mem devices [04/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:42 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for misc devices [05/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:42 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for raw devices [06/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:42 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for OSS sound devices [07/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:43 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for ALSA sound devices [08/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:43 ` [PATCH] clean up sysfs class support for tty devices [09/10] Greg KH
2004-01-15 20:43 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for vc devices [10/10] Greg KH
2004-01-16 4:13 ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-16 19:04 ` Martin Schlemmer
2004-01-16 19:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-16 19:52 ` Martin Schlemmer
[not found] ` <yw1xu12v7d5t.fsf@kth.se>
2004-01-17 0:10 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for ALSA sound devices [08/10] Greg KH
2004-01-17 0:50 ` Måns Rullgård
2004-01-15 21:23 ` [PATCH] add sysfs class support for OSS sound devices [07/10] Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-15 21:32 ` Greg KH
2004-01-15 22:01 ` Prakash K. Cheemplavam
2004-01-20 1:58 ` [PATCH] add class_simple support [01/10] Rusty Russell
[not found] ` <yw1xoet5rktz.fsf@kth.se>
2004-01-15 22:56 ` [PATCH] sysfs class patch update [00/10] Greg KH
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