linux-kernel - Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles

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Message-ID: <ac3eb2510907180912u7b30d8actcfab15776fe2d99d@mail.gmail.com>
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
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