From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265576AbTGIBFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:05:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267783AbTGIBFd (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:05:33 -0400 Received: from www.13thfloor.AT ([212.16.59.250]:49801 "EHLO www.13thfloor.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265576AbTGIBFc (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 21:05:32 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:20:14 +0200 From: Herbert Poetzl To: Andrey Borzenkov Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.5.74] devfs lookup deadlock/stack corruption combined patch Message-ID: <20030709012014.GA19777@www.13thfloor.at> Reply-To: herbert@13thfloor.at Mail-Followup-To: Andrey Borzenkov , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200307072306.15995.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20030707140010.4268159f.akpm@osdl.org> <200307082149.17918.arvidjaar@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200307082149.17918.arvidjaar@mail.ru> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:49:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > I do not want to sound like it has to be ignored - but devfs code is so messy > that no trivial fix exists that would not make code even more messy. So I sorry to interrupt, but wasn't there an ongoing efford to replace the devfs with smalldevfs or something even better? *hint* please ignore me, if I'm talking nonsense ... best, Herbert > would still apply original fixes and let this problem be solved later - it is > not so important as to delay two other. > > -andrey