Re: [PATCH] 2.5.14 IDE 56

Russell King
2002-05-08T17:07:16Z

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:07:44AM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Russell King writes:
> > Really? What about the case of the missing BKL for device opens that
> > you haven't really commented on?
>
> I did comment to you, privately, saying I was waiting to see what the
> consensus was on the issue of whether to move the BKL or not. I'll be
> sending a patch later this week to fix it.

Yes, and hey, we still have the problem a week layer, even after the
discussion went dead.

> > Seems like devfs _still_ has locking problems.
>
> A pretty minor one, given the comment I was responding to: "devfs is
> unfixable". I've noticed that even Al has gone quiet on the "devfs
> races" issue, now that the new code is in place :-)

Never the less, your comment about "no locking problems" is inaccurate.
devfs is calling at least one part of the kernel without obeying the
existing locking rules. That's definitely a devfs bug.

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux