Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: tty_[un]register_devfs putting 3K structures on the stack | Date | Fri, 06 Oct 2000 16:22:11 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> |
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tytso@MIT.EDU 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
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