Re: commit 83d817f410 broke my ability to use Linux with a braille display

From: Nicolas Pitre
Date: Fri Jan 11 2019 - 15:10:15 EST


On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 01:33:09PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > I use Linux with the help of a braille display and the brltty daemon. It
> > turns out that the latest mainline kernel I can work with comes from
> > commit 231f8fd0cc. Anything past that and I lose the ability to read the
> > console barely a few seconds after the system has booted as brltty is
> > thrown a wrench and the braille display becomes completely inoperable.
>
> Please try the patch below, it was just queued up to my tree and should
> resolve the issue. If not, please let us know.

Yes, it works. Thanks.

I also re-validated all the vt/vcs patches I sent you this week for
which I started entertaining some doubts about their stability. But they
all work fine again with the tty fix applied.


Nicolas