Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Aug 2005 00:58:13 +0100 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Remove race between con_open and con_close |
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On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:40:01AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > I have a laptop (G3 powerbook) which will pretty reliably hit a race > between con_open and con_close late in the boot process and oops in > vt_ioctl due to tty->driver_data being NULL.
Have you looked at how serial_core handles this kind of problem in its open and close methods? I put some comments in there because of the issue, after thinking about it fairly carefully.
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