Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 1 May 2003 19:47:11 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 |
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On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 11:42:29AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > I had two concerns with smalldevfs: > > - It's dropping a semaphore (i_sem?) during its synchronous userspace > callout. That was for deadlock avoidance and may have introduced a race.
That's a design bug carried over from the old devfs and needs fixing by changing the way userspace notification works.
> - The new userspace doesn't support the compatibility names. Just some > config file, or a tarball or a dang shell script full of `ln -s' > calls would fix that up, I think.
Well, that's easily fixable. Does someone actually have a copy if the devfs_helper tarball around? Adam's seems to have vanished and his ftp server is down, too.
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