cut and paste fixed

[Toby Fisher]

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Kirk Reiser wrote:

> Hi everybody: Cut and paste is finally fixed and once again working in
> the 2.6.xx kernel tree.  The problem was that in the new console code
> they handle all of the keyboard functions in the actual interrupt
> which caused OOPS when the race condition locking code was called to
> tighten up the kernel.  After discussion on the reflector with a
> number of good suggestions being proposed I decided to handle the cut
> and paste functionality ourselves which makes for tighter cleaner
> code.  I have also modified the 2.4.xx tree to use the same code.

Cool!

Does this mean we're safe to use 2.6.5 now?
I hope so.

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