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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sat Jan 12 2019 - 03:08:30 EST


On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 03:10:04PM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 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.

Great, thanks for testing, I will get this patch to Linus soon.

greg k-h