From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:38:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:38:05 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:48914 "EHLO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 16:37:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3A03302C.C2A87573@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 16:37:48 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.18pre18 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox CC: tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page (Updated as of 2.4.0-test10) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > * Check all devices use resources properly (Everyone now has to use > > request_region and check the return since we no longer single > > thread driver inits in all module cases. Also memory regions are > > now requestable and a lot of old drivers dont know this yet. -- > > Alan Cox) > > Folks have done most of the common drivers. So its not really a show stopper > now just a 'clean up' s/check_region/request_region/ is moving along, but there is still a ways to go. I agree with "folks have done most of the common drivers" I have seen very few additions of request_mem_region, though. > > * Issue with notifiers that try to deregister themselves? (lnz; > > notifier locking change by Garzik should backed out, according to > > Jeff) > > and according to Alan Fixed for a couple versions now. > > * Spin doing ioctls on a down netdeice as it unloads == BOOM > > (prumpf, Alan Cox) Possible other net driver SMP issues (andi > > kleen) > > Turns out to be safe according to Jeff and ANK To avoid Andi confusing the issue :) ... 1) The first item listed does not exist 2) the second item listed exists -- many net drivers are not SMP. They are most of the way there, but there are still small races which exist in some drivers. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Dinner is ready when Building 1024 | the smoke alarm goes off. MandrakeSoft | -/usr/games/fortune - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/