From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: push the tty_lock down into the map handling
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:15:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120424231546.GA29153@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120424100605.1409.32356.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
>
> When we do this it becomes clear the lock we should be holding is the vc
> lock, and in fact many of our other helpers are properly invoked this way.
>
> We don't at this point guarantee not to race the keyboard code but the results
> of that appear harmless and that was true before we started as well.
>
> We now have no users of tty_lock in the console driver...
Yeah!!!
Nice job, thanks for unwinding all of this mess, it's looking much
better.
greg k-h
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2012-04-24 10:06 [PATCH] vt: push the tty_lock down into the map handling Alan Cox
2012-04-24 23:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
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