Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Apr 2003 10:23:53 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: IEEE-1394 problem on init [ was Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc1 ] |
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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 04:21:31PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 09:54:48AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Your patch leaves a race condition open. And no, I don't have a stripped > > down patch. It's impossible for me to syncronize layers of linux1394 > > development with the timing of 2.4/2.5 development. The size of the > > current 2.4 diff is only because of the amount of stuff merged from our > > 2.5 tree and a serious code cleanup (fixing locking problems like you saw > > here). > > While this is a reasonable explanation, we are now in rc mode, and > your changes are not trivial, they could introduce a big pile of > new bugs. > > Marcelo, please revert the latest IEEE1394 changeset entirely. > > Let's hope that things will happen differently in 2.4.22-pre :(
Uh no, reverting it will just re-introduce bugs that it fixed. 2.4.22-pre should have come around a long time ago. The only reason most of the changes in 2.4.21-pre for ieee1394 are there is because of the amount of time that 2.4.21-pre has been sitting around. I was trying to hold off most of these changes for 2.4.22-pre, but .21-pre lingered for so long it became unreasonable.
Then after a long huge pause, it suddenly goes -rc. Should that leave me stuck? Don't think so.
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