linux-kernel - Re: Possible tty VT1 disallocate regression

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Message-ID: <51BB92E1.7040906@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Jun 2013 18:02:09 -0400
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:	Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible tty VT1 disallocate regression

On 06/14/2013 05:35 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 09:47:40PM +0100, Ross Lagerwall wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Ever since commit 421b40a6286e ("tty/vt: Fix vc_deallocate() lock
>> order"), the first VT does not clear when I log out.  AFAIK, this means
>> that disallocation is not working?  The problem only affects the first
>> VT, the others clear when logging out.
>
> And if you revert that patch, does it all start working again?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> p.s. In the future, please cc: the people who handled the patch you are
> asking about, otherwise stuff like this often gets missed in the noise
> of lkml.

I've already been re-reviewing the VT indexing to see if or what I missed.

Thanks,
Peter Hurley

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