Hi, Alok, On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 02:02 +0800, Alok Kataria wrote: > Hi Zhang, Len, > > This is with reference to the deadlock that we see when hot-ejecting a > cpu. > > Please refer this link for reference. > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9772 > > Zhang had then provided a patchset which fixed this issue. > The battery-hotplug patches and the 3 patches from the above link. > > I hand weaved all these patches to fit on top of the latest X86 git > tree and > this approach still works well. Yes, that's true. > In that discussion Zhang had also mentioned that Alex and Thomas are > working > on a simpler approach due to which this patchset was dropped. > I tried searching though the linux-acpi archives to look for > discussion on > that approach or patches on that, but didn't get any. Patches are not finished yet. :( > I would be interested in knowing the status of those patches or if > there were > any discussions may be I can help you guys with. Also, IMO, if the > simpler > approach is going to take some time would it be better to have these > patches > upstream (until those are ready) so that atleast the eject feature is > not > broken there ? Not all the first four patches attached in the bugzilla are needed. I'll try to cook up a simpler version which has no conflicts with the new approach. thanks, rui -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
