On Sunday 04 April 2010 05:14:17 David Ellingsworth wrote: > After looking at the proposed solution, I personally find the > suggestion for a serialization flag to be quite ridiculous. As others > have mentioned, the mere presence of the flag means that driver > writers will gloss over any concurrency issues that might exist in > their driver on the mere assumption that specifying the serialization > flag will handle it all for them.
I happen to agree with this. Proper locking is difficult, but that's not a reason to introduce such a workaround. I'd much rather see proper documentation for driver developers on how to implement locking properly. -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
