kern/92440: Kernel fault in knote when getty opens a serial port

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR kern/92440; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Paul Marciano <pm940 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>, freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/92440: Kernel fault in knote when getty opens a serial port
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:08:10 -0500

 On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 11:38:49PM -0800, Paul Marciano wrote:
 > 
 > --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
 > 
 > > On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:30:07AM +0000, Paul
 > > Marciano wrote:
 > > 
 > > > >Description:
 > > > My systems all use serial consoles.  Upon logging
 > > > out of a shell session I observed a kernel fault. 
 > > > This has been reported before, I believe, but I
 > > > couldn't find a PR.
 > > 
 > > I think this was fixed in 6.0-RELEASE.  Can you
 > > confirm?
 > > 
 > > Kris
 > > 
 > 
 > Kris,
 > 
 > Thanks for the info, but unfortunately I'm not in a
 > position to be able to check out 6.0.  We're on 5.4
 > and will move to 5.5 when it is released but 6.0 is
 > regarded as immature (I would be interested in hearing
 > other opinions on that point).
 
 6.0 is a much better release than both 5.4 and (confidently predicting
 into the future), 5.5.  Any prejudice against it just because of the
 ".0" is unfounded.
 
 > I have looked at the kernel sources and see that the 6.0 serial
 > framework has changed.
 
 Yes, and unfortunately this bug will not be fixed in the 5.x series.
 
 Kris