Subject: Re: must-fix list for 2.6.0
From: Andreas Boman <aboman@midgaard.us>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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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