On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 03:09:52PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. People _have_ given a damn, and I think you were even cc'd.
You're right. In my defense, that stuff arrived the day I went
on vacation for two weeks, and I subsequently forgot all about it.
Looking back over that thread though, a few people seemed to pick a
number of holes in the patches, and there are some real gems in that
thread like.
> Really, the hotplug locking rules are fairly simple-
>
> 1. If you are in cpu hotplug callback path, don't take any lock.
Which is just great, as afair, the cpufreq locks were there _before_
someone liberally sprinkled lock_cpu_hotplug() everywhere.
> Right now, for 2.6.19, I'd prefer to not touch that mess unless there are
> known conditions that actually cause more problems than just stupid
> warnings..
>From what I can tell from looking at that thread back in August,
it went on for a while with a number of people picking holes in the
proposed patches, but there wasn't any reposted after that, and
certainly nothing that ended up in -mm.
_something_ needs to be done. If someone wants to fix it, great, but
until we see something mergable, we're left in this half-assed state
which is freaking people out.
Dave
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