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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: davem@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spinlock badness in last dongle changes.
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 19:03:31 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031008020331.GA19007@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031006222631.1934f8e1.shemminger@osdl.org>

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 10:26:31PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On 2.6.0-test6 bk latest, rmmod of irda hangs on SMP...
> 
> A couple of locking problems happened when converted from using
> hashbin lock outside of irqueue.  First, the lock was never initialized;
> Second, the lock was being unlocked after the hashbin was free.
> 
> Since the hashbin of dongles should be empty (ie all dongle unregistered)
> don't really need locking there, so just warn if we find anything...

	I've recompiled my kernel with this patch and the trouble
modprobing the dongle driver went away.
	Thanks !

	Jean

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-10-08  2:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-07  5:26 [PATCH] spinlock badness in last dongle changes Stephen Hemminger
2003-10-07 15:29 ` David S. Miller
2003-10-08  2:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]

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