On Mon, 7 May 2007 14:18:29 -0400 (EDT)
Scott Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:07:49PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote:
> > > Sorry, it took me a few days to get to testing this out. It looks good,
> > >
> > > but I had to make a couple of tweaks to avoid a hang when rmmod'ing a
> > > board driver. The board drivers do:
> > >
> > > cpci_hp_stop()
> > > cpci_hp_unregister_controller(controller)
> > >
> > > to shutdown, and the check in cpci_hp_unregister_controller if the thread
> > > is running wasn't working due to a bit too much code being excised. The
> > > result was kthread_stop being called twice, which hangs. I've indicated
> > > my changes to avoid this inline below.
> >
> > Can you forward the patches with your fix to Andrew to make sure he
> > picks it up?
>
> Andrew, here is my updated version of Christoph's kthread conversion
> patch for cpci_hotplug. I've CC'ed Kristen so she won't be surprised
> when this eventually goes to mainline.
A patch in this area would normally go
you->kristen->mainline
|
v
-mm
or
you->kristen->greg->mainline
|
v
-mm
or
you->me->greg->mainline (gets an Acked-by somewhere)
|
v
-mm
or
you->kristen->Len->mainline
|
v
-mm
or something else.
Kristen, how do you want to play this?
Do you run a tree? If so, lemmeatit ;)
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