[ILUG] Linux 0.01 Maintainer

[Mel]

Mailed to the linux-kernel mailing list today with the subject "[PATCH]
Linux 0.01 disk lockup" was this little gem

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Hi.

Linux 0.01 has a bug in disk request sorting - when interrupt happens
while sorting is active, the interrupt routine won't clear do_hd - thus
the disk will stay locked up forever.

Function add_request also lacks memory barriers - the compiler could
reorder writes to variable sorting and writes to request queue - producing
race conditions. Because gcc 1.40 does not have __asm__("":::"memory"), I
had to use dummy function call as a memory barrier.

The following patch fixes both issues.

[PATCH]

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I heard of people working on older kernels, but this is pushing it a wee
bit. Linus asked him did he want to be the official maintainer for the
0.01.xx kernels :-)

-- 
		Mel

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