Re: Re: hanging linuxthread processes

On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 13:26 -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 12:16 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > > Are you considering your patch for Kyle's CFP?
> > 
> > Er, what patch?
> 
> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2007-February/031385.html

This one, definitely not ... it doesn't work ... I need to get acess to
a machine again where I can play around with it.

> There's also the somewhat related space register issue associated with
> TLB flushing:
> 
> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2007-February/031365.html

I think this one works OK ... but we could do with checking it

> Randolph's change to tlbflush.h is broken and needs to be reverted
> if we don't have a better fix yet.

I really think these problems demonstrate this new approach to patch
management is non functional.  I bet even the good patch has had no
testing at all for the last two months.  I'm afraid that unless I care
about a patch (i.e. I need it for something I'm doing), I shoot it
across the list and forget about it.  Previously, when I checked it into
the repository and forgot about it, at least it was being built and
tested ... and someone would eventually notice if it needed to go
upstream.

James