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

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 12:03:26 EST


On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 08:40:20AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I suspect we should take the three now. All of the issues are due to
> totally rewritten code since 2.6.30 - I suspect the risk from new bugs
> from that refcounting series is _smaller_ that the risk of bugs from the
> original ldisc rewrite (commit c65c9bc3e), and if there are bugs, I
> suspect the three patches are more likely to help than to hurt.

Ok, let me make up a git queue for you to pull them from and test it
first. It will take a few hours, I have to play taxi for the kids
different summer camps this morning.

thanks,

greg k-h
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