Hello,

On Wednesday 14 January 2004 23:10, Alan Stern wrote:

> Now a more interesting item, not yet entirely certain:
>
>       struct usb_device->serialize will become a read-write semaphore.
>
> Also, a driver is guaranteed that the semaphore will be held when its
> probe() and disconnect() routines are called.
>
> In general, a driver can acquire the serialize semaphore whenever it wants
> to block one of the functions above temporarily.

Will there be function calls / macros for this semaphore handling?
So that you can change implementation without breaking interface?

best regards
Wolfgang Mües






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