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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>
Cc: bulb@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code. 
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Jeff Dike writes:
> bulb@ucw.cz said:
> > Tty device code causes oopses when closing /dev/console and devfs is
> > used. The bug is reproducible on 2.4.17 UML port.
> 
> How do you reproduce it?
> 
> UML config, command line, a backtrace, etc would be nice.

Furthermore, this was done without applying the latest devfs patch
(v199.8 as I write this). Bug reports with old versions of devfs are
(and should be) dropped in the bit-bucket, especially considering
recent devfs patches have ChangeLog entries which talk about fixing
Oopses!

				Regards,

					Richard....
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Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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