Re: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Jul 18 2009 - 12:08:59 EST


On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 05:34:17PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: vc: create vcs(a) devices for consoles
>
> The buffer for the consoles are unconditionally allocated at
> con_init() time, which miss the creation of the vcs(a) devices.
>
> Since 2.6.30, these devices are no longer created at open()
> and removed on close(), but controlled by the lifetime of the
> buffers.

Is this a bug in .31-rc right now? Should this make it into the final
.31 release?

And what caused this change, tty changes? If so, it should go through
Alan Cox's tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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