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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu, bcrl@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] lock validator: fix ns83820.c irq-flags bug
Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 08:00:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <448C2FFE.3010002@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <448C2EEE.1020405@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The driver's locking is definitely wrong, but I don't think this is the 
> fix, 

it's an obvious correct fix in the correctness sense though...

> 
> Jesus, the locking here is awful.  No wonder there are bugs.


... which given that fact, is for 2.6.17 probably the right thing, pending
a nicer fix for 2.6.18

I fully agree with you that the locking is trying to be WAAAY too smart
for it's own good, and that a much simpler scheme is called for.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-11 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200606090519.k595JmDG032032@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-06-11 14:55 ` [patch 7/8] lock validator: fix ns83820.c irq-flags bug Jeff Garzik
2006-06-11 15:00   ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-06-11 16:09     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-11 16:12       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-11 17:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-06-11 17:02   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-11 20:28   ` Benjamin LaHaise

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