Re: loopback device HANGS (was: problems with loopback block device)
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 16 May 1998 09:39:42 +1000
On Fri, 15 May 1998 18:18:36 +0200 (METDST),
Stefan Ring <e9725446@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
>On Fri, 15 May 1998, Keith Owens wrote:
>> Moving the lock before request_fn means that low level routines are
>> running without a critical lock. It may or may not work, depends
>> entirely on interrupt timing. Eventually it will fail.
>
>so what i'm supposed to do?
Keep mentioning the bug in loopback until somebody who understands the
code has a look at it. There is no maintainer listed for loopback, Ted
Ts'o was the author.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu