From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263021AbTDVIfk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:35:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263024AbTDVIfk (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:35:40 -0400 Received: from postfix4-2.free.fr ([213.228.0.176]:17635 "EHLO postfix4-2.free.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263021AbTDVIfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2003 04:35:38 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA50303.30200@free.fr> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:53:23 +0200 From: Eric Valette Reply-To: eric.valette@free.fr Organization: HOME User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc-Christian Petersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 : aic7xxx deadlock on boot on my machine References: <3EA4FF4C.2030702@free.fr> <200304221036.19274.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> In-Reply-To: <200304221036.19274.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Marc-Christian Petersen wrote: > I'll _bet_ that the new well good code from Justin won't make it into 2.4 > earlier than 2.4.22-pre1. I do not really see why because 2.4.20 -> 2.4.21 contains already such a driver change. Note that I mailed alan and justin on pre4-acxx. Justin suggested various fixes that did not resolve the problem and then decided to do a code inspection. Reading the Changelog, indeed the locking startegy has changed compared to the rc1 version. I mailed arcello again on pre7 even providing kdbg backtrace. Never mind : the report is more informative to others as I already patched my kernel to the last version... Thanks for responding, and providing integrated patch sets. Have a good day. -- __ / ` Eric Valette /-- __ o _. 6 rue Paul Le Flem (___, / (_(_(__ 35740 Pace Tel: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 Fax: +33 (0)2 99 85 26 76 E-mail: eric.valette@free.fr