Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:15:46 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] vt: push the tty_lock down into the map handling |
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > > When we do this it becomes clear the lock we should be holding is the vc > lock, and in fact many of our other helpers are properly invoked this way. > > We don't at this point guarantee not to race the keyboard code but the results > of that appear harmless and that was true before we started as well. > > We now have no users of tty_lock in the console driver...
Yeah!!!
Nice job, thanks for unwinding all of this mess, it's looking much better.
greg k-h
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