Re: [patch-2.3.35-pre2] fixed RAMDISK.

Jeff Uphoff (juphoff@transmeta.com)
Fri, 24 Dec 1999 09:02:53 -0800 (PST)


"TA" == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> writes:

TA> Thanks for testing it but I suspect it has a problem. I have not verified
TA> whether this is possible but imagine two requests for the same kdev_t dev
TA> occur on two CPUs, then unless we protect access to rd_memory[minor] we
TA> will get very bad things to happen.

Data point: I didn't build an SMP kernel.

TA> Btw, I assume you got the latest version of it, i.e. the one on my site
TA> AFTER I posted "now it is safe to try it"? The very original version had a
TA> bug. If in doubt, get it again from:

I got it after the "safe" message.

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