On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:59:37AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > I'm very sorry about the locking, but the thing grew up in times of > kernel 2.0, which didn't require any locking. There are a few possible
Incorrect. You have blocking allocations in critical areas and they required locking all way back. > races with device registration/unregistration, and it's on my list to > fix that, however under normal operation there shouldn't be any need for > locks, as there are no complex structures built that'd become > inconsistent. Um-hm... Vojtech, meet USB mouse; USB mouse, meet Vojtech. Now watch a disconnect and reconnect happening when luser suddenly gets overexcited and jerks the wrong hand a bit too hard while browsing the most profitable sort of website... > If you find scenarios which will lead to trouble in the event delivery > system, please tell me, and I'll try to fix that as soon as possible. See above. Devices appearing and disappearing *are* normal. - 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/
