On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:40:01AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > I have a laptop (G3 powerbook) which will pretty reliably hit a race > between con_open and con_close late in the boot process and oops in > vt_ioctl due to tty->driver_data being NULL.
Have you looked at how serial_core handles this kind of problem in its open and close methods? I put some comments in there because of the issue, after thinking about it fairly carefully. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
