>>>>> "j" == J A Magallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

j> On 20011112 Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
>>> >
>>> when after a week or two you notice your mbox isn't full of [CHRPM]s,
>>> ever get the feeling something is up?
>> 
>> Kernel was updated three days ago. Devfs version in question was
>> released more than a week ago. And I have been reporting lockups in
>> devfs for more than a month at least.
>> 

j> As I have read in LKML, after the latest 'release' of devfs, it was still
j> broken. So the mantainer (see the state of the beast...) finally decided
j> to drop the current implementation and start feeding Linus-Alan a new
j> fully reworked devfs (that is supposed to have not locking-race problems).
j> But the problem is that the patches are leakin' in pieces to the list,
j> I have not seen a full patch...so wait until it is complete. I'm
j> sure Juan is tracking the list.


He sent several patches, and I tried to make work the last one, but
they are work in progress and they don't work (TM), don't work as in
the film "They are unable to boot a machine that only has IDE",
i.e. my normal test machine.

Later, Juan.


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

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