Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Thu, 1 Jan 1998 16:36:09 +0100 (CET)
On Thu, 1 Jan 1998, Philip Blundell wrote:
>>It break the scheduling between ppa and lp.
>
>I think I see what's wrong, actually. When parport_yield() is called it will
>only give up the port if it thinks someone else is waiting, and it only counts
>people sleeping in parport_claim_or_block(), not those who called
>parport_claim() once and are doing their own retries. That's a bit dumb.
I just fixed this yesterday. This allow ppa to run but the scheduling
remains a lot of broken (a lot of messages parport0: tring to release
parport...).
>However, I don't have time to fix it at the moment, as I'm about to go out.
>I'll try to do something about it tomorrow.
I will continue to search for bugs.
Andrea[s] Arcangeli
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