From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sonic.zhang@analog.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tty: fix bug - kernel can't be pinged through when bootargs console=null
Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 00:09:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090207000934.6805a35a@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090206160555.b95e02bc.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Did any earlier kernel versions handle this situation OK?
>
> If so, we might need to be back-compatible with buggy userspace :(
Nothing to do with userspace. You can't call tty_driver_kref_get(NULL),
it's completely bogus.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-07 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-06 8:27 Bryan Wu
2009-02-06 10:06 ` Alan Cox
2009-02-07 0:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-07 0:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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