Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752501AbZGRQIv (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:08:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752165AbZGRQIu (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:08:50 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:52854 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751993AbZGRQIt (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:08:49 -0400 Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:01:01 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Kay Sievers Cc: linux-kernel , Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi Subject: Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles Message-ID: <20090718160101.GA13346@kroah.com> References: <1247931257.29760.1.camel@yio.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1247931257.29760.1.camel@yio.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 864 Lines: 25 On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:34:17PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > From: Kay Sievers > 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? And what caused this change, tty changes? If so, it should go through Alan Cox's tree. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/