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From: Tim Waugh <twaugh@redhat.com>
To: John Cavan <johncavan@home.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 10:24:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001117102411.S6735@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3A13D4BA.AD4A580B@home.com> <3A13D8D6.8C12E31A@home.com> <20001116162027.C597@suse.de> <3A149D00.9D38FA24@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A149D00.9D38FA24@home.com>; from johncavan@home.com on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:50:40PM -0500

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On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:50:40PM -0500, John Cavan wrote:

> [...] This patch unlocks, allows the lowlevel driver to do it's
> probes, and then relocks. It could probably be more granular in the
> parport_pc code, but my own home tests show it to be working fine.

Is that safe?

Also, what bit of the parport code is tripping over the lock?
Request_module or something?

A nicer fix would probably be to use parport_register_driver, but
that's likely to be too big a change right now.

Tim.
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-17 10:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-16 12:36 Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert John Cavan
2000-11-16 12:53 ` [PATCH] " John Cavan
2000-11-16 15:20   ` Jens Axboe
2000-11-17  2:50     ` [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) " John Cavan
2000-11-17 10:24       ` Tim Waugh [this message]
2000-11-18 22:10         ` John Cavan
2000-11-20 12:51           ` Tim Waugh

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