Re: [PATCH] For test only: pmac_zilog fixes (cups lockup at boot):

From: Russell King
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 04:28:21 EST


On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 08:05:05PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 19:58, Russell King wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:54:31PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > Ok, so I finally got a hand on the problems. A mix of bugs in
> > > the driver, bugs in the HW, and bugs in the TTY layer ! pfiew.
> >
> > I'm not even going to bother reviewing these changes - the gratuitous
> > change of "up" to "uap" makes this task virtually impossible.
>
> Oh... and the change wasn't gratuitous... "up" do actually conflict
> with up() as soon as you try to use a semaphore :)

Yes, I know - but the point is its impossible to review, and I think
you at least have an extra level of locking which isn't needed.

But I wouldn't know because of the huge number of changes which make
it impossible to read.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 PCMCIA - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
2.6 Serial core
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