linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.36

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Message-Id: <201008062140.37482.arnd@arndb.de>
Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 21:40:37 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.36

On Friday 06 August 2010 20:51:47 Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:40:15AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Do do the highlander thing on that crud. Cut it off at the head, and
> > make sure it never ever comes back to life.
> 
> Arnd and Alan, I'll drop the BKL portion of this patch series and
> regenerate something to get the other tty patches to Linus.
> 
> Care to redo the patch series and just drop the BKL for good?
> 

I'm sending you a new version of patch 43, everything else should just
remain the same AFAICT. I've given it a quick sniff test and it still
works the same way as the kernel I've been running for the past months
with CONFIG_TTY_MUTEX enabled.

	Arnd
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