Re: [2.6.1-rc2-mm1][BUG] Badness in unblank_screen at drivers/char/vt.c:2793

Andrew Morton
2004-01-09T00:19:07Z

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> I don't have an update ready at the moment, nothing critical need
> updating and I was waiting to see if the WARN_ON would catch some
> stuffs :)
>
> It's probably worth adding a WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED() macro that
> does the above rather than fixing all the WARN_ON's don't you
> think ? If yes, then I'll do a new patch.

I wouldn't bust a gut over it - this is the only code path which I've seen
generate the warning (famous last words).