Re: HFS-Bug in 2.4.19

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt (benh@kernel.crashing.org)
Date: Mon Aug 05 2002 - 05:11:23 EST


>> here is my 4th report since about 2.4.8:
>>
>> You can reproduce the bug in a few steps if you have a kernel with
>> modules support for hfs.
>
>HFS is not maintained. It will probably go away for 2.6 unless someone
>becomes its maintainer and fixes it

I noticed Al finally burned me on this as he did some locking fixes
to HFS in 2.5. I'm pretty sure more is needed, and I still have some
plans to fix some of it, in both 2.4 and 2.5, it's just that so far,
I've always found more important things to do of my linux dedicated
time ;)

Ben.

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