Re: proper tty-ldisc refcounting (was Re: WARNING at:drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c)

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 03:24:58 EST


On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 11:19:53PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> > Oh wait, the original problem, single user mode. Hm, we need all of
> > these to fix that problem? Or just the first one?
>
> Patches 1-3 should fix that one. 4-5 are just cleanups with no semantic
> changes.

Ok, but due to the lateness of the release cycle, is it worth it to add
those 3 right now? Or do we just take the BUG_ON() out as it's pretty
harmless while shutting down in single user mode?

What do you think?

greg k-h
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