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From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
To: "jeff.chua.linux" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-2.6.31 INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error (due to  commit b50989dc444599c8b21edc23536fc305f4e9b7d5)
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:56:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090925115636.5b4b8aca@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6a2187b0909240923t4e8d61f4g6d82b7f9f9bf621b@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 00:23:27 +0800
"jeff.chua.linux" <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > It is timing dependant. A discussion and some fixes were posted a
> > while ago.
> 
> I must have missed that. Will try to search for it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff

>From Andrew's tree:

     tty: fix regression caused by "tty: make the kref destructor occur
     asynchronously"

which allows both a sync and an async element to the destruction
cleanup. The console uses the synchronous one which avoids the delay
before it becomes available again.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-25 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-24 13:24 linux-2.6.31 INIT: open(/dev/console): Input/output error (due to commit b50989dc444599c8b21edc23536fc305f4e9b7d5) Jeff Chua
2009-09-24 15:01 ` Alan Cox
2009-09-24 16:23   ` jeff.chua.linux
2009-09-25 10:56     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-09-25 15:35       ` Jeff Chua
2009-09-25 15:47         ` Alan Cox
2009-09-25 15:52           ` Randy Dunlap
2009-09-25 16:00             ` Jeff Chua
2009-09-25 16:32               ` Jeff Chua
2009-09-25 19:46                 ` Frédéric L. W. Meunier

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