Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:15:46 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk, a.zummo@towertech.it,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, david-b@pacbell.net,
       Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [BUG] rtc uie emulation deadlocks
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:12:04 -0700 (PDT)
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> wrote:

> 
> --- Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:43:39 +0100 Russell King
> > <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > The locking looks a rather random in there, so I'm not going to try to
> > > create a patch.
> > > 
> > 
> > Looks like this was caused by
> > 
> > commit 5ad31a575157147b43fa84ef1e21471661653878
> > Author: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
> > Date:   Wed Jul 23 21:30:33 2008 -0700
> > 
> >     rtc: remove BKL for ioctl()
> 
> I'm sure I saw someone else's fixup patch for that a couple weeks ago.
> (Looks).  Yes:
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/rtc-linux/browse_thread/thread/ad65b883739f8c92#

argh, so a fix for a serious regression has been languishing in the
backwaters of the rtc list for two weeks.

Guys, please: regressions are serious, top-priority emergencies.  We
drop everything and run around with our hair on fire when we hear about
one (don't we?).  Please, if you have a report of a regression or a fix
for one, Cc: everyone in the world on it.

I'd prefer not to go fishing through HTML to piece that patch together,
but as my hair is on fire I guess I'd better do so.

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