Re: tty_[un]register_devfs putting 3K structures on the stack

[Jeff Dike]

[e-mail] said:
> And it's allocating a tty_struct for a really dumb reason, too.  It's
> just using it so it cna call tty_name.

> Just replace the call to tty_name with something like this:

> 	sprintf(buf, driver->name, idx + driver->name_base)

> and make the obvious change to avoid using tty.device, and you can
> avoid need to allocate a tty_struct altogether. 

Are you willing to consider this a critical bug that deserves to be fixed 
before 2.4.0?

If so, I'm willing to make the fix and send it to whoever wants it.

				Jeff