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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Possible tty VT1 disallocate regression
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 14:35:43 -0700
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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.