Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0 | From | Andreas Boman <> | Date | 01 May 2003 20:57:07 -0500 |
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On Thu, 2003-05-01 at 13:47, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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. > I think this is the latest tarball Adam had, though i could be mistaken. http://users.eiwaz.com/~aboman/files/misc/devfs_helper-0.2.tar.gz
Andreas
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