Re: Deadlock (Was: psaux device regression in 2.2.16)

From: Andries Brouwer (aeb@veritas.com)
Date: Thu Jun 15 2000 - 06:17:06 EST


On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 07:41:13PM +0000, Markus Gutschke wrote:

> While I haven't had the time to back out the changes to the psaux
> code just yet, I can confirm that 2.2.16 definitly broke handling of
> the PS/2 code. On my SMP Pentium III, 2.2.16 deadlocks after a few
> hours. This always seems to be correlated to me moving the mouse
> pointer (I have a Logitech trackball).

The previous poster withdrew his bug report, so if anything
is wrong there, you are the first to report it.
At first sight it seems unlikely that the PS/2 change
could cause a deadlock. If your deadlock is reproducible,
then I expect you will be able to attribute it to something else.

Andries

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