Re: panic unplugging usb keyboard

[Juan RP <juan%xtrarom.org@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:52:23 -0600
David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:

> Looks like I introduced this bug very recently.  I will back out the
> change.
> 
> AFAICT, detaching the console can leave dangling pointers in the kernel,
> which will eventually lead to a panic.  At least, that is what has
> happened when I detached console at com0.  I will look more closely at
> wskbd0 to see if it knows how to avoid this.

No idea about those dangling pointers but at least with 4.0, I'm able
to plug and unplug the USB console keyboard multiple times without any panic.

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