Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 11:42:38 -0800
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Kai Makisara <Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.1-bk2] Might sleep while loading st.ko
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On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 09:30:57PM +0200, Kai Makisara wrote:
> Added linux-scsi which may be better list for this problem.
> 
[snip]
> I thought I used enough debugging options to catch this but I did not...
> 
> The patch below fixes this problem (introduced in 2.6.1) by moving cdev 
> code outside the lock protecting st internal data. The patched driver 
> compiles and seems to work in my tests.
> 
> The sysfs link to /sys/cdev/major/st?m0 is not made any more because I have
> understood that it is a bad idea.
> 
> Thanks for reporting the bug.
> 

I'll put this patch in my next kernel compile.

Thanks.
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