From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:38:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:38:03 -0400 Received: from corb.mc.mpls.visi.com ([208.42.156.1]:214 "HELO corb.mc.mpls.visi.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 17 May 2001 22:37:54 -0400 Message-ID: <3B048518.705AC5F3@steinerpoint.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 21:12:40 -0500 From: Al Borchers Reply-To: alborchers@steinerpoint.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Cox Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, tytso@mit.edu, Peter Berger Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.2.18: A critical problem with tty_io.c 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: > 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