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]
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2008-05-18 2:16 bug in `tty: BKL pushdown'? Johannes Weiner
2008-05-18 10:08 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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