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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ross Lagerwall <rosslagerwall@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible tty VT1 disallocate regression
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:35:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130614213543.GA1896@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130614204740.GA706@hobo.wolfson.cam.ac.uk>

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.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-14 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-14 20:47 Possible tty VT1 disallocate regression Ross Lagerwall
2013-06-14 21:35 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-06-14 22:02   ` Peter Hurley
2013-06-14 22:24   ` [PATCH] tty/vt: Return EBUSY if deallocating VT1 and it is busy Ross Lagerwall
2013-06-14 23:01     ` Peter Hurley
2013-06-15  4:48       ` Greg KH
2013-06-16 17:35     ` Mikael Pettersson

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