From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 11:08:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080518110812.5485de20@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wslsuzk8.fsf@saeurebad.de>
> I have yet to test a current kernel version with this patch reverted
> because I am too sleepy right now to solve the conflicts.
That wouldn't actually be a useful test if you did as the locking changes
would then bite you. The patch in question should just be a locking
change so short of compiler bugs ought to be fairly easy to audit. I will
dig into it next week.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-18 10:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-18 2:16 bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'? Johannes Weiner
2008-05-18 10:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20080518110812.5485de20@core \
--to=alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk \
--cc=alan@redhat.com \
--cc=hannes@saeurebad.de \
--cc=jirislaby@gmail.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.