On Sat, Oct 20, 2001, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:00:54AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > Here's a patch against 2.4.13-pre5 that fixes the locking bugs that > > > David Miller found in the usb core code. > > > > Hmm.. The old code used "read_lock_irq()" and friends for the spinlock, > > which implies that interrupts can get the lock too - in which case turning > > it into a semaphore cannot work. > > > > Or was the ol dcode just being silly about interrupt disables? > > I think the old code was being silly about interrupt disables. I don't > see where the lock could be taken from an interrupt.
Agreed. I looked over the code too and it can't be called from interrupts. JE _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
