Re: [PATCH] vt: kill tty->count usage (v2)

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Aug 15 2008 - 06:16:26 EST


On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:58:12 -0400
Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The commit e0426e6a09954d205da2d674a3d368d2715e3afd fixes a real race but
> still isn't enough to prevent these:
>
> kobject_add_internal failed for vcs7 with -EEXIST, don't try to register
> things with the same name in the same direc.

Ack this. Will want some tweaking for the ttydev tree as it wants to
switch to using krefs for vc->vc_tty as well now.

Alan
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