Re: 2.4.17 OOPS in tty code.

[Andrew Morton]

Richard Gooch wrote:
> 
> Jeff Dike writes:
> > [e-mail] 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!
> 

Jan's report seems to have nothing to do with devfs.  It
sounds like it's purely a tty-layer thing.

I'd like to see the full backtrace before we bitbucket
this one, please.

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