From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:38:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:38:19 -0400 Received: from ns.caldera.de ([212.34.180.1]:4265 "EHLO ns.caldera.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 3 Sep 2001 14:38:13 -0400 Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:38:21 +0200 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup gendisk handling Message-ID: <20010903203821.A305@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20010903200504.A30093@caldera.de> <3B93CD9D.35ED4F1C@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3B93CD9D.35ED4F1C@redhat.com>; from arjanv@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:36:13PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 02:36:13PM -0400, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Hi, > > I had a patch similar to this one a while ago (and it got dropped); One > difference is that your patch doesn't > seem to lock the linked list... so the operation is SMP unsafe (it was > before, but fixing that would be a > good sideeffect of this patch) I will do this once (if) this patch is in. I'd rather avoid pushing too many changes in one diff. Christoph -- Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.