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Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:29:08 +0200
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Chris Ahna <christopher.j.ahna@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoid a race in complete_change_console()
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On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:07:44PM -0700, Chris Ahna wrote:
> Can someone familiar with this code comment on the correctness of this
> patch?  The patch is against vanilla 2.4.13.  Thanks,

I'm not very familiar with it, but it seems sane fix. Only detail is
that the vc_mode can only be KD_TEXT after the reset_vc but the
additional check doesn't hurt and it makes it indipendent by the
reset_vc details.

Andrea
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