Re: Memory leak in 2.6.11-rc1?

[Lennert Van Alboom]

Positive, I only applied this single two-line change. I'm not capable of 
messing with kernel code myself so I prefer not to. Probably just a lucky 
shot that the vesa didn't go nuts with nvidia before... O well, with a bit 
more o'those pharmaceutical drugs even this 80x25 doesn't look too bad. 
Hurray!

Lennert

On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:00, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Lennert Van Alboom wrote:
> > I applied the patch and it works like a charm. As a kinky side effect:
> > before this patch, using a compiled-in vesa or vga16 framebuffer worked
> > with the proprietary nvidia driver, whereas now tty1-6 are corrupt when
> > not using 80x25. Strangeness :)
>
> It really sounds like you should lay off those pharmaceutical drugs ;)
>
> That is _strange_. Is it literally just this single pipe merging change
> that matters to you? No other changces? I don't see how it could
> _possibly_ make any difference at all to anything else.
>
> 		Linus

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