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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:39:29 -0700
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Subject: Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.39-rc1: f23eb2b breaks console output
To: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com>
Cc: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:42:54AM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> On 4 April 2011 23:59, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does this patch make a difference?
>> Yes, it works on top of 2.6.39-rc1-00184-g78fca1b9
>
> This fixes the problem for me too (on top of
> 148086bb64694cc91624bab2a550d50f800eb4b7 ).

I had that patch pending because Dave Jones had reported a less
extreme case of this earlier, but I never got a definitive ack from
him on it.

But with you two confirming it, it's now committed as commit
a5660b41af6a ("tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up")
in my tree.

Thanks,

                             Linus
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