Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> apparently not triggering, since it could be that Debian's initrd
> might cause some other uncaught recursion loop if we don't drive this
> problem determination to root cause.

Agreed - and there are all sorts of obscure and wonderful other ways to
trip this up which need the detector (AF_UNIX modular and doing a syslog
for example).

> > That's why I still think it's a good thing, to connect the core tty
> > devices to their dev_t handler internally, before we init all the
> > other drivers and run userspace.
> 
> Um, how early?  (/me searches lkml.org for the original patch).  Ah,
> OK, you want to do it postcore....  There may actually be a problem
> with that, because it looks like vtconsole_class_init (which is
> currently run as a postcore initcall) really wants to happen before
> the tty layer initializes itself.  So moving tty into postcore could
> potentially run into problems, depending on whether vt.c's or
> tty_io.c's initcalls are run first.

Its playing with fire and doing so to paper over a completely different
problem. The recursion detector is generic and should be sufficient. If
it isn't then it needs improving to be generic, sufficient and working.