Re: 2.1.97 kills loopback - patch

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:53:05 +1000

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On Sun, 19 Apr 1998 13:00:51 +0300 (EEST),
Samuli Kaski <samkaski@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
>Clean 2.1.97 with just the lp and system.h patches applied. Mounting a
>loopback device (-o loop) results in a hanged system, sysrq won't work.

Known problem with SMP and the new io_request_lock in 2.1.9[67]. No
patch yet. Anybody who knows loopback care to take a look at it?

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