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From: Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ]
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 17:29:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030423152914.GM820@hottah.alcove-fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030423144857.GN354@phunnypharm.org>

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:48:58AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> > As for 2.4.21, well, we want something pretty well tested. Will this
> > be the case with your new mega-patch ? I don't think so. The safest
> > is to go back to a version which worked. At least the bugs of that
> > version are known, which is not the case for the new version.
> 
> BTW, have you even tested the patch? I can almost guarantee is is more
> stable than what was in -pre7 (outside of the one small fix I had to
> apply for the IRM looping). The -pre7 code has loads of irq disabling
> problems and dead lock issues, not to mention the race conditions.
> 
> The problem you see with the irq disabling around kernel_thread() may
> not be there in -pre7, but that's only because the shared data with the
> thread was not protected from a race condition that causes an oops in
> some not-so-rare cases.

I confirm that your patch at least solves the initialisation issues.
I'll test later with some ieee devices and I'll report back if I found
other issues.

Stelian.
-- 
Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>
Alcove - http://www.alcove.com

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-23 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-23 12:29 IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Tony Spinillo
2003-04-23 12:53 ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 13:01   ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 13:22     ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 13:32       ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 13:46         ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 13:58         ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 13:54           ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 14:21             ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 14:23               ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 14:51                 ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 14:44                   ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 14:48                   ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 15:29                     ` Stelian Pop [this message]
2003-04-23 19:13                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-04-23 19:05                         ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 19:27                           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-04-23 20:20                         ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-23 20:24                           ` Ben Collins
2003-04-23 20:42                             ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-26  8:29                               ` The IEEE-1394 saga continued... [ was: IEEE-1394 problem on init ] Stelian Pop
2003-04-26 14:34                                 ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 16:10                                   ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-26 16:12                                     ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 17:00                                       ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-26 16:59                                         ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 14:40                                 ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 16:23                                   ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-26 16:25                                     ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 17:15                                       ` Stelian Pop
2003-04-24 21:44                         ` IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Bill Davidsen
2003-04-24 21:41                           ` Ben Collins
2003-04-25 18:06                             ` Bill Davidsen
2003-04-25 18:16                               ` Ben Collins
2003-04-26 10:36                                 ` Bill Davidsen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-21 18:47 Linux 2.4.21-rc1 Marcelo Tosatti
2003-04-23  7:59 ` IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Stelian Pop

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