Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: USB hangs

[Matthew Dharm]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 12:09:41AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sul, 2004-01-11 at 23:33, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > For users of a kernel thread it helps. But what affects storage
> > also make affect anything else that has a filesystem running
> > over it. Plus it forces us to keep the storage thread model, which
> > might be a solution that needs to be revisited.
> 
> Its a larger hammer, for 2.6 I agree that moving the right code to
> GFP_NOIO is far better a solution. For 2.4 I just want it working with
> minimal risk of screwups.

Well, I have no objection to adding that to 2.4 -- either push to Marcelo
yourself or send it to Greg K-H for inclusion in his 2.4 tree and eventual
push upstream.

But we do need to do some sort of 2.6 audit for this sort of thing.

Matt

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