Re: [PATCH] MTD (kernel 2.4.32): kernel stuck in tight loop occasionally on flash access

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Sun Dec 18 2005 - 02:06:34 EST


On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:21:26PM -0800, Vijay Sampath wrote:
> > > Something is wrong here? Your patch should not alter dontdiff.
> >
> > It didn't. 2.4 kernel doesn't have dontdiff, so I had to download it.
> > But I only downloaded to one of the directories, hence the messed up
> > output. Maybe dontdiff should have "dontdiff" as one of the files not
> > to diff! :)
>
> Sorry for another mail, but please let me know if I should resubmit
> the patch without the dontdiff problem.

It would be better, because if your patch is merged, the description
and the patch will be extracted from your mail. Please also fix the
description about TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. BTW, is there a particular
reason for TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE ? Or maybe you simply found it in
another driver ?

Regards,
Willy

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