On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:58:30PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> Greg KH has said that he would like to remove the bus subsystem rwsem from
> the driver model. Here's a proposal for a way to accomplish that. The
> proposal is incomplete and requires changing the driver-model API a
> little; I'd l
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:10:11 -0500 (EST), linux-os
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Thought experiment:
> Suppose you had a kernel-thread whos duty it was to handle the
> shutdown and restarting of devices on such busses. Since it
> is the only thing that would touch such code, wouldn't things
> be
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, linux-os wrote:
> Thought experiment:
> Suppose you had a kernel-thread whos duty it was to handle the
> shutdown and restarting of devices on such busses. Since it
> is the only thing that would touch such code, wouldn't things
> be a lot simpler and not subject to deadlocks?
Thought experiment:
Suppose you had a kernel-thread whos duty it was to handle the
shutdown and restarting of devices on such busses. Since it
is the only thing that would touch such code, wouldn't things
be a lot simpler and not subject to deadlocks?
Code calls something that puts the stuff the ke
Greg KH has said that he would like to remove the bus subsystem rwsem from
the driver model. Here's a proposal for a way to accomplish that. The
proposal is incomplete and requires changing the driver-model API a
little; I'd like to hear people's reactions and get suggestions on ways to
impro
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