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Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:08:03 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
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To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
CC: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, bulb@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code.
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Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> 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!
> 

Jan's report seems to have nothing to do with devfs.  It
sounds like it's purely a tty-layer thing.

I'd like to see the full backtrace before we bitbucket
this one, please.


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