On Wed, 9 May 2007, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 7 May 2007 14:18:29 -0400 (EDT) > Scott Murray <scottm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 06:07:49PM -0400, Scott Murray wrote: > > > > Sorry, it took me a few days to get to testing this out. It looks good, > > > > but I had to make a couple of tweaks to avoid a hang when rmmod'ing a > > > > board driver. The board drivers do: > > > > > > > > cpci_hp_stop() > > > > cpci_hp_unregister_controller(controller) > > > > > > > > to shutdown, and the check in cpci_hp_unregister_controller if the thread > > > > is running wasn't working due to a bit too much code being excised. The > > > > result was kthread_stop being called twice, which hangs. I've indicated > > > > my changes to avoid this inline below. > > > > > > Can you forward the patches with your fix to Andrew to make sure he > > > picks it up? > > > > Andrew, here is my updated version of Christoph's kthread conversion > > patch for cpci_hotplug. I've CC'ed Kristen so she won't be surprised > > when this eventually goes to mainline. > > A patch in this area would normally go > > you->kristen->mainline > | > v > -mm > > or > > you->kristen->greg->mainline > | > v > -mm > > or > > you->me->greg->mainline (gets an Acked-by somewhere) > | > v > -mm > > or > > you->kristen->Len->mainline > | > v > -mm > > or something else. My apologies, it wasn't entirely clear to me that that was happening with the other kthread conversion patches in the big batch, so I didn't follow the normal procedure. I'll try to stick to the regular flow up the chain going forward. Scott -- Scott Murray SOMA Networks, Inc. Toronto, Ontario e-mail: scottm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers