public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, bulb@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code.
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:08:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C4C9F53.D6949776@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200201212204.RAA03719@ccure.karaya.com>, <20020121151037.A21622@ucw.cz> <200201212204.RAA03719@ccure.karaya.com> <200201212247.g0LMlBU01766@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Jeff Dike writes:
> > bulb@ucw.cz said:
> > > Tty device code causes oopses when closing /dev/console and devfs is
> > > used. The bug is reproducible on 2.4.17 UML port.
> >
> > How do you reproduce it?
> >
> > UML config, command line, a backtrace, etc would be nice.
> 
> Furthermore, this was done without applying the latest devfs patch
> (v199.8 as I write this). Bug reports with old versions of devfs are
> (and should be) dropped in the bit-bucket, especially considering
> recent devfs patches have ChangeLog entries which talk about fixing
> Oopses!
> 

Jan's report seems to have nothing to do with devfs.  It
sounds like it's purely a tty-layer thing.

I'd like to see the full backtrace before we bitbucket
this one, please.


-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-21 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-21 14:10 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code bulb
2002-01-21 22:04 ` Jeff Dike
2002-01-21 22:47   ` Richard Gooch
2002-01-21 23:08     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-01-31  0:21 ` Jan Hudec
     [not found] <009101c1a2cf$704da030$0801a8c0@Stev.org>
2002-01-24 13:18 ` Jan Hudec

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=3C4C9F53.D6949776@zip.com.au \
    --to=akpm@zip.com.au \
    --cc=bulb@ucw.cz \
    --cc=jdike@karaya.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox