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

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> 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 :(

Uh no, reverting it will just re-introduce bugs that it fixed.
2.4.22-pre should have come around a long time ago. The only reason most
of the changes in 2.4.21-pre for ieee1394 are there is because of the
amount of time that 2.4.21-pre has been sitting around. I was trying to
hold off most of these changes for 2.4.22-pre, but .21-pre lingered for
so long it became unreasonable.

Then after a long huge pause, it suddenly goes -rc. Should that leave me
stuck? Don't think so.

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