From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932947AbZHDQDU (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:03:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932635AbZHDQDT (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:03:19 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:52777 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932297AbZHDQDT (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2009 12:03:19 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:00:44 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , Alan Cox , OGAWA Hirofumi , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at: drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c) Message-ID: <20090804160044.GA21153@kroah.com> References: <20090803181811.GA15848@kroah.com> <20090804003009.GA3121@localdomain.by> <20090804035319.GA7248@kroah.com> <20090804040834.GA16696@kroah.com> <20090804072351.GA17474@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:40:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > I suspect we should take the three now. All of the issues are due to > totally rewritten code since 2.6.30 - I suspect the risk from new bugs > from that refcounting series is _smaller_ that the risk of bugs from the > original ldisc rewrite (commit c65c9bc3e), and if there are bugs, I > suspect the three patches are more likely to help than to hurt. Ok, let me make up a git queue for you to pull them from and test it first. It will take a few hours, I have to play taxi for the kids different summer camps this morning. thanks, greg k-h