Re: [PATCH 1/1] ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

[Paul Mundt]

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 03:22:47PM -0400, Robin Getz wrote:
> Try #4... (sorry)
>  
> From: Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  
> This is a followup to the cleanups for earlyprintk patch from Gerd Hoffmann
>  
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=69331af79cf29e26d1231152a172a1a10c2df511
>  
> This ensures that a bootconsole is unregistered if it is not replaced.
> The current implementation spews garbage out the bootconsole in this case,
> since the bootconsole structure is normally in the init section, and is
> freed, but still used.
>  
> Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <rgetz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks better, thanks.

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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