Re: [REGRESSION] 2.6.39-rc1: f23eb2b breaks console output

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Mon Apr 04 2011 - 17:46:34 EST


On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 12:42:54AM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> On 4 April 2011 23:59, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Does this patch make a difference?
>> Yes, it works on top of 2.6.39-rc1-00184-g78fca1b9
>
> This fixes the problem for me too (on top of
> 148086bb64694cc91624bab2a550d50f800eb4b7 ).

I had that patch pending because Dave Jones had reported a less
extreme case of this earlier, but I never got a definitive ack from
him on it.

But with you two confirming it, it's now committed as commit
a5660b41af6a ("tty: fix endless work loop when the buffer fills up")
in my tree.

Thanks,

Linus
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