From: Al Borchers <alborchers@steinerpoint.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, tytso@mit.edu,
Peter Berger <pberger@brimson.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c
Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 21:12:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B048518.705AC5F3@steinerpoint.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E150VEu-0006AM-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox wrote:
> It has to be changed, the race is basically unfixable any other way. I didn't
> lightly make that change
I agree. The patch seems like the correct solution. What will it take to
get the patch in the 2.4.x kernels? Do we need someone to go through the serial
drivers and fix their open/close routines to work with this patch? Peter
and I can take some time to do that--if that would help.
-- Al
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-18 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-17 20:00 [patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c Al Borchers
2001-05-17 21:23 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 2:12 ` Al Borchers [this message]
2001-05-18 7:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 8:24 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 9:08 ` Al Borchers
2001-05-18 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-18 15:22 ` Al Borchers
2001-05-18 10:09 ` Andrew Morton
2001-05-18 11:29 ` Alan Cox
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2001-01-22 13:55 Maciej W. Rozycki
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