Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:17:38 -0800
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]
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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.

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