Re: bug: kernel timer added twice....

Richard Jones (rich@bibliotech.co.uk)
Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:40:14 +0000

Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > bug: kernel timer added twice at c0185a78
> >
> > Hi there, just caught some bug? Here's what happened:
> > Mounting a CDROM caused
> > bug: kernel timer added twice at c0185a78
>
> Its been fixed in 2.2.2ac for ages 8)
>
> > Maybe someone can answer this question, or tell me the ac-patch, that
> > fixes it ;-)
>
> 2.2.2ac1 had it fixed

This is the actual patch you need (if you
don't want to apply the whole of ac -- although
I would recommend that, coz it's usually a
good line of kernels):

diff -u --new-file --recursive --exclude-from ../exclude linux.vanilla/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c linux.ac/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
--- linux.vanilla/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c Sat Jan 9 21:50:44 1999
+++ linux.ac/drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c Sun Feb 21 17:03:08 1999
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@
struct semaphore sem = MUTEX_LOCKED;
struct timer_list timer;

+ init_timer(&timer);
timer.data = (unsigned long) &sem;
timer.expires = jiffies + timeout;
timer.function = (void (*)(unsigned long))scsi_sleep_done;

Rich.

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