Re: [PATCH] Documentation/network/ppp_generic.txt

From: Paul Mackerras (paulus@samba.org)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 00:29:59 EST


David S. Miller writes:

> How critical is this and the other PPP patches for 2.4.x? Could it
> wait for 2.4.19-pre1? I don't want to pressure Marcelo for 2.4.18
> final unless absolutely necessary.

Not critical at all. I have forwarded Marcelo a patch which fixes one
of the problems in ppp_generic.c by changing all_ppp_lock into a
semaphore. I agree that the rest of the fixes can wait for the
2.4.19-pre series. The problems tend to show up mainly on SMP boxes
handling multiple PPP connections. I posted the patch so that the
people who were having problems could try it and let me know if it
fixed their problems.

I would appreciate it though if you had time to look over the patch
and see if you think I have missed any potential races.

As for the documentation patch, it's not going to affect any code
behaviour, so it can go in whenever you and Marcelo think is
appropriate. :)

Paul.
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