Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ]

Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Wed, 23 Apr 2003 16:21:31 +0200


On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:54:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> Your patch leaves a race condition open. And no, I don't have a stripped
> down patch. It's impossible for me to syncronize layers of linux1394
> development with the timing of 2.4/2.5 development. The size of the
> current 2.4 diff is only because of the amount of stuff merged from our
> 2.5 tree and a serious code cleanup (fixing locking problems like you saw
> here).

While this is a reasonable explanation, we are now in rc mode, and
your changes are not trivial, they could introduce a big pile of
new bugs.

Marcelo, please revert the latest IEEE1394 changeset entirely.

Let's hope that things will happen differently in 2.4.22-pre :(

Stelian.

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