On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 02:32:41PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > 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.
The msleep one is queued up for the next Linus pull, and after it goes in, I'll add it to the -stable trees as well. thanks, greg k-h - 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/