From: David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:59:55 -0800
> > This addition certainly won't hurt. Did we ever get any feedback as to > > whether it actually helped? > > ISTR that davem refused to try it, after reporting an > intermittent failure on the original patch (which only > addresses one end of that hardware race). > > So, no ... but given we know that closing only one side > of the race isn't quite enough, I think we need it anyway. I think we should put all these changes in because at a minimum it's a step in the right direction even if it doesn't close the hole %100. So please let's merge the mutex and the msleep() change in ASAP, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
