Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:15:46 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks |
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:04 -0700 (PDT) David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > --- Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0100 Russell King > > <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > > > > The locking looks a rather random in there, so I'm not going to try to > > > create a patch. > > > > > > > Looks like this was caused by > > > > commit 5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878 > > Author: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> > > Date: Wed Jul 23 21:30:33 2008 -0700 > > > > rtc: remove BKL for ioctl() > > I'm sure I saw someone else's fixup patch for that a couple weeks ago. > (Looks). Yes: > > http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/ad65b883739f8c92#
argh, so a fix for a serious regression has been languishing in the backwaters of the rtc list for two weeks.
Guys, please: regressions are serious, top-priority emergencies. We drop everything and run around with our hair on fire when we hear about one (don't we?). Please, if you have a report of a regression or a fix for one, Cc: everyone in the world on it.
I'd prefer not to go fishing through HTML to piece that patch together, but as my hair is on fire I guess I'd better do so.
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