Re: [PATCH][2.5.74] devfs lookup deadlock/stack corruption combined patch

From: Herbert Poetzl (herbert@13thfloor.at)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 20:20:14 EST


On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 09:49:17PM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>
> I do not want to sound like it has to be ignored - but devfs code is so messy
> that no trivial fix exists that would not make code even more messy. So I

sorry to interrupt, but wasn't there an ongoing
efford to replace the devfs with smalldevfs or
something even better? *hint*

please ignore me, if I'm talking nonsense ...

best,
Herbert

> would still apply original fixes and let this problem be solved later - it is
> not so important as to delay two other.
>
> -andrey
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