From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264353AbTDWTHj (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:07:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264359AbTDWTHh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:07:37 -0400 Received: from bristol.phunnypharm.org ([65.207.35.130]:13025 "EHLO bristol.phunnypharm.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264353AbTDWTHe (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:07:34 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 15:05:45 -0400 From: Ben Collins To: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Stelian Pop , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] Message-ID: <20030423190545.GY354@phunnypharm.org> References: <20030423132227.GI820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423133256.GG354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423135814.GJ820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423135448.GI354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423142131.GK820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423142353.GL354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423145122.GL820@hottah.alcove-fr> <20030423144857.GN354@phunnypharm.org> <20030423152914.GM820@hottah.alcove-fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > > 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. > > Any news on that, Stelian ? > > I guess Ben's mega patch (and yes, I also consider it a megapatch for > -rc) has to be applied. I just mailed him asking about the possibility > of getting only fixes in and not the cleanups, but I guess that might be a > bit hard to do _today_. Right Ben ? Yeah, it's pretty hard. I didn't do all these changes with the intent of it being a 2.4.21 thing, but it definitely dragged on to the point where I had no choice, and pulling the fixes out of the major work became too much work. > And about the sweet complaints about -pre timing, I will release -pre's > each damn week for .22. If you could just commit patches to the bk repo as you get them, instead of holding them for a month and dumping them all in at once, it would be easier to follow things. Instead, we got several huge lumps late in 2.4.21-pre's. Wasn't my intent to bash you, but I will admit that 2.4.21 has been a pain in my ass because of the cycle :) -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/