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

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On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 09:16:02PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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 :)

Heh, yeah, I know its origins. :)

Thanks for reviewing these.

Johan
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