On Mon, Apr 02 2007, Rene Herman wrote: > On 04/01/2007 12:06 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > >Looks like mcdx_xfer is sleeping while holding q->queue_lock. The > >attached (untested) patch should fix it. > > This (including your followup) does indeed avoid the traces in the > kernel log, but unfortunately, the driver seems to need a bit more.
I took a quick look at the driver, and it's pretty much utter crap so I would not expect much. If you want to use it, make sure you at least disable any form of SMP and preempt. > Last time Al Viro suggested ripping them out, I slightly objected: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/2/123 > > but well, although I like playing with this stuff, I still don't know > the first thing about the block layer and given the shape these things > are in... The questionable quality of the ancient CDROM drivers itself makes it appealing to just dump it. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
