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SubjectRe: [PATCH] vt: push the tty_lock down into the map handling
On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:06:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
>
> When we do this it becomes clear the lock we should be holding is the vc
> lock, and in fact many of our other helpers are properly invoked this way.
>
> We don't at this point guarantee not to race the keyboard code but the results
> of that appear harmless and that was true before we started as well.
>
> We now have no users of tty_lock in the console driver...

Yeah!!!

Nice job, thanks for unwinding all of this mess, it's looking much
better.

greg k-h


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