From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:21:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:20:56 -0400 Received: from atbode61.informatik.tu-muenchen.de ([131.159.32.54]:49536 "EHLO atbode61.informatik.tu-muenchen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 08:20:46 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 14:20:06 +0200 From: Georg Acher To: Ingo Molnar Cc: "Nemosoft Unv." , Jan Harkes , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webcam@smcc.demon.nl, "Eloy A.Paris" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] RE: [PATCH -R] Re: 2.4.10 is toxic to my system when I use my US Message-ID: <20010927142006.B1491@atbode61.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mail-Followup-To: Georg Acher , Ingo Molnar , "Nemosoft Unv." , Jan Harkes , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, webcam@smcc.demon.nl, "Eloy A.Paris" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: ; from mingo@elte.hu on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:00:24AM +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:00:24AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > yep. this is one reason why the 2.4.10 kernel clears the ->next and ->prev > pointers in list_del() - the above code will break immediately. Good intention, very bad timing. All of these bug-provoking fixes for a production kernel should only occur in the first kernels of a -pre-series, not in the last one. -- Georg Acher, acher@in.tum.de http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/ "Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias