From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762080AbXHTT10 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:27:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757547AbXHTT1L (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:27:11 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:48148 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754477AbXHTT1J (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:27:09 -0400 Message-ID: <46C9EAFC.6090301@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:26:52 +0200 From: Gerd Hoffmann User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Getz CC: Andrew Morton , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Paul Mundt , Mike Frysinger , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released References: <200708192246.05783.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> <8bd0f97a0708192011m1b957e57je313850a255dcac7@mail.gmail.com> <20070820033143.GA4918@linux-sh.org> <200708201522.47591.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> In-Reply-To: <200708201522.47591.rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Robin Getz wrote: > This ensures that a bootconsole is unregistered if it is not replaced. > The current implementation spews garbage out the bootconsole in this case, > since the bootconsole structure is normally in the init section, and is > freed, but still used. > > Signed-off-by: Robin Getz > CC: Gerd Hoffmann Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann cheers, Gerd