linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2)

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Message-ID: <20080815105847.5462746b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:58:47 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	jirislaby@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2)

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:58:12 -0400
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com> wrote:

> The commit e0426e6a09954d205da2d674a3d368d2715e3afd fixes a real race but
> still isn't enough to prevent these:
> 
> kobject_add_internal failed for vcs7 with -EEXIST, don't try to register
> things with the same name in the same direc.

Ack this. Will want some tweaking for the ttydev tree as it wants to
switch to using krefs for vc->vc_tty as well now.

Alan
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