From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, a.zummo@towertech.it,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david-b@pacbell.net,
Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:15:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080819131546.51dea318.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <915094.18966.qm@web82205.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
>
> --- Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0100 Russell King
> > <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > The locking looks a rather random in there, so I'm not going to try to
> > > create a patch.
> > >
> >
> > Looks like this was caused by
> >
> > commit 5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878
> > Author: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> > Date: Wed Jul 23 21:30:33 2008 -0700
> >
> > rtc: remove BKL for ioctl()
>
> I'm sure I saw someone else's fixup patch for that a couple weeks ago.
> (Looks). Yes:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/ad65b883739f8c92#
argh, so a fix for a serious regression has been languishing in the
backwaters of the rtc list for two weeks.
Guys, please: regressions are serious, top-priority emergencies. We
drop everything and run around with our hair on fire when we hear about
one (don't we?). Please, if you have a report of a regression or a fix
for one, Cc: everyone in the world on it.
I'd prefer not to go fishing through HTML to piece that patch together,
but as my hair is on fire I guess I'd better do so.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-19 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-11 13:43 [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks Russell King
2008-08-19 7:53 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-19 17:12 ` David Brownell
2008-08-19 20:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-08-20 13:27 ` Atsushi Nemoto
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