From: COTTE@de.ibm.com
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: BUG: race-cond with partition-check
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:21:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C1256A65.0033CE5A.00@d12mta11.de.ibm.com> (raw)
Hi Andries!
>Ah, yes. This second assignment can just be deleted, I suppose.
>
>[In the good old days it wasn't there. It was added in 1.3.19,
>don't know why, probably as a safeguard to make sure nobody
>used these values while they are being set up. But someone
>was bit by the assignment, since it is not undone if we take
>the return, so in 2.3.48 the assignment was moved past the
>return, with a conditional assignment before it. I believe
>you are right, and we only want the conditional assignment.]
>
>Andries
Thank you _very_ much for looking into it and accepting my suggestion.
Your patch will fix the problem perfectly good.
with kind regards
Carsten Otte
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH
Linux for 390/zSeries Development - Device Driver Team
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2001-06-08 9:21 COTTE [this message]
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