Re: Linux 2.2.11pre2 proposed patch

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Tue, 20 Jul 1999 15:16:13 +0100


On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 01:07:24PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > I seem to recall there being several ways to fix that bug.
> > Were the other solutions any better, or did they too have
> > associated problems ?
>
> There is an official Cyrix one. That would be acceptable in kernel

It *was* in the kernel. The NO_LOCK fix was added in 2.2.7, and changed
for official but undocumented one in 2.3.6. I can't tell you what happened
w.r.t. the later 2.2 series, as CVS seems to have shafted my kernel tree,
*again*. Either that or I've done something horribly wrong :)

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