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SubjectRe: must-fix list for 2.6.0
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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