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Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:12:20 +0200 From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386@...oo.com.ar> Subject: Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 18:01, Greg KH<greg@...ah.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:34:17PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: >> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> >> 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@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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