From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755095AbZHKSxa (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754682AbZHKSx3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:29 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:37674 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754668AbZHKSx1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:53:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:30:03 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Dave Young Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox Subject: Re: mmotm 2009-08-06-00-30 uploaded Message-ID: <20090811183003.GA4333@kroah.com> References: <200908060733.n767X6mN023120@imap1.linux-foundation.org> <20090807134659.GA2093@darkstar> <20090807094944.eed4bfb8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090811140824.GA2067@darkstar> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20090811140824.GA2067@darkstar> 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 11, 2009 at 10:08:24PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > On Sat, Aug 08, 2009 at 06:13:53PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 21:47:00 +0800 Dave Young wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, andrew > > >> > > >> Booting with this release, init (maybe getty?) reports something like: > > >> > > >> INIT: open /dev/console failed with input/output error > > >> > > >> 2.6.31-rc5 is fine. > > >> > > >> Any hints to find the root problem? > > > > > > Not really, sorry.  Might be tty changes in linux-next? > > > > I bisected linux-next, find following patch as a result > > > > commit 65b8c7d9be5862ff8ac839607b444b6f6b11d2fb > > Author: Alan Cox > > Date: Thu Aug 6 09:58:02 2009 +1000 > > > > cyclades: use the full port_close function > > > > But, I did not select cyclades in my .config, nor do i have the hardware. Weird. > > The above result is wrong, it's a mistake. > > After a whole day's testing and debugging with linux-2.6 git tree and tty patch series, I found the patch causing this issue. > -- > From: Alan Cox > Subject: tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronously > -- So if you revert this one patch, everything goes back to working properly? Alan, any ideas? thanks, greg k-h