> > What's more, in the particular case of urb completion callbacks there is > > no guarantee that the callback is even called from an interrupt. > > Right, although there is a guarantee that local interrupts will be > disabled when the completion handler is called. That guarantee may be > removed in the future (at least, I think it ought to be removed).
I guess that was out of fear that some drivers would assume they are always called with interrupts disabled. But changing it would require not-so-obvious auditing of all drivers... Best wishes, Duncan. ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
