From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@yahoo.com.ar>,
stable@const.famille.thibault.fr
Subject: Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles
Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:19:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090718161926.GN28509@const.famille.thibault.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510907180912u7b30d8actcfab15776fe2d99d@mail.gmail.com>
Kay Sievers, le Sat 18 Jul 2009 18:12:20 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 18:01, Greg KH<greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:34:17PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> >> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> >> Subject: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles
> >>
> >> The buffer for the consoles are unconditionally allocated at
> >> con_init() time, which miss the creation of the vcs(a) devices.
> >>
> >> Since 2.6.30, these devices are no longer created at open()
> >> and removed on close(), but controlled by the lifetime of the
> >> buffers.
> >
> > Is this a bug in .31-rc right now? Should this make it into the final
> > .31 release?
>
> Yes, and in .30.
Please also push it to stable@kernel.org The bug makes the console
unusable e.g. for blind users using braille devices.
Samuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-18 16:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-18 15:34 Kay Sievers
2009-07-18 16:01 ` Greg KH
2009-07-18 16:12 ` Kay Sievers
2009-07-18 16:19 ` Samuel Thibault [this message]
2009-07-18 18:32 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-07-18 22:32 ` Greg KH
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