0.5.5 release planning (Was Re: [PATCH] fix spec if rebuild from distributed package)

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:19:44AM -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 17:03 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:44 -0500, Jon Nettleton wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 12:31 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 17:05 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > > > David, When's 0.5.5 going to be forked? There's lots of goodness in
> > > > > CVS not in 0.5.4
> > > > 
> > > > I don't see any problems with doing a 0.5.5 release soon. Maybe just
> > > > wait for Jon Nettlon's bugs to be worked out though? It's also mostly
> > > > about what you and Danny think since I'm not too involved these days.
> > > > 
> > > >     David
> > > > 
> > > > 
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> > > 
> > > For a 0.5.5 release I am happy with the existing fixes we have worked
> > > on.  I think we are 95% to getting removable media working consistently,
> > > and reliably on the desktop ( at least from a Hal perspective ).
> > > 
> > > Has anyone had a chance to look at the last patch I submitted as a
> > > re-work for the race condition on /proc/mounts?  I am curious if you
> > > think that it is just over-complicating the process.
> > 
> > It does seem very complicated.. in little words (for simple me), what
> > happens when the race happens, and is this a kernel bug?
> 
> I believe that in the earlier thread when the first patch was proposed
> by Danny Kukawka, there was some discussion as to whether this was a
> kernel bug or not.  In that thread Kay Sievers seemed to be of the
> opinion this was the proper way to work with the kernel, and it's
> possible event timing idiosyncrasies.

The kernel events will probably never get fixed to get in sync with
the mount. Wait for the current discussion about making /proc/mounts
poll()'able which may solve the problem proper. We'll see...

Kay