Re: [PATCH 0/2] USB: serial: console: fix tty-lock regression

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 06:51:31PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> Testing a simple clean-up patch resulted in a lockdep splat, which
> turned out to be due to an uninitialised spin lock after a tty change
> that went into 4.6. Makes you wonder how many people actually use this
> code...

USB serial console was the result of a drunken bet many years ago at a
kernel summit.  I'd be really amazed if it ever works for any "real"
use, it always seems to break in random ways showing that no one is
relying on it, thankfully :)

gre gk-h
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