Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753299AbZGRQMi (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:12:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752639AbZGRQMg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:12:36 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.217.213]:62332 "EHLO mail-gx0-f213.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752478AbZGRQMf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:12:35 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090718160101.GA13346@kroah.com> References: <1247931257.29760.1.camel@yio.site> <20090718160101.GA13346@kroah.com> From: Kay Sievers Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:12:20 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel , Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1101 Lines: 30 On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 18:01, Greg KH wrote: > 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? Yes, and in .30. > And what caused this change, tty changes?  If so, it should go through > Alan Cox's tree. This change caused it: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4995f8ef9d3aac72745e12419d7fbaa8d01b1d81 Thanks, Kay -- 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/