From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH post 2.6.28] firewire: core: fix sleep in atomic context due to driver core change
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:17:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090109211718.48a7a4a6@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.34f28fe71f678057@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:49:37 +0100 (CET)
Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> Due to commit 2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3, "driver core:
> create a private portion of struct device", device_initialize() can no
> longer be called from atomic contexts.
I don't see why this is neccessary or appropriate - the original commit
needs to be pulled and the private area allocation rethought.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-09 18:35 post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may fail without recovery strategy Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 19:49 ` [PATCH post 2.6.28] firewire: core: fix sleep in atomic context due to driver core change Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:17 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-01-09 21:54 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 22:28 ` [git pull] FireWire fix Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 20:56 ` post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may fail without recovery strategy Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:13 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:20 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:34 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:30 ` Greg KH
2009-01-09 21:40 ` Stefan Richter
2009-01-09 21:24 ` Alan Cox
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