Re: 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code.

Richard Gooch (rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 15:47:11 -0700

Jeff Dike writes:
> bulb@ucw.cz said:
> > Tty device code causes oopses when closing /dev/console and devfs is
> > used. The bug is reproducible on 2.4.17 UML port.
>
> How do you reproduce it?
>
> UML config, command line, a backtrace, etc would be nice.

Furthermore, this was done without applying the latest devfs patch
(v199.8 as I write this). Bug reports with old versions of devfs are
(and should be) dropped in the bit-bucket, especially considering
recent devfs patches have ChangeLog entries which talk about fixing
Oopses!

Regards,

Richard....
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