From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 09:12:56 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109271512.f8RFCuW20065@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010927150812.28147B-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010927150812.28147B-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Mikulas Patocka writes:
> Linux 0.01 has a bug in disk request sorting - when interrupt
> happens while sorting is active, the interrupt routine won't clear
> do_hd - thus the disk will stay locked up forever.
Er, why bother to fix bugs in such an ancient kernel, rather than
upgrading to a more modern kernel (like 0.98:-)? It's like finding a
bug in 2.3.30 and fixing it rather than grabbing 2.4.10 and seeing if
the problem persists.
Regards,
Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-27 15:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-27 13:34 Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-27 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-09-27 20:02 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-09-27 21:18 ` Aaron Tiensivu
2001-09-27 15:12 ` Richard Gooch [this message]
2001-09-27 15:18 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-09-27 15:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-27 16:07 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-27 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 16:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-29 21:16 ` [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup - read the old (1991) archives Rob Landley
2001-09-30 12:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-10-01 14:08 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-01 18:36 ` Virtual terminal support Rok Pergarec
2001-10-01 19:22 ` James Simmons
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