Re: [V4L] races in v4l read + write in 2.4

[Oliver Neukum]

On Monday 30 October 2000 14:26, you wrote:
> > As usual, this is just IMHO, but I think the idea of videodev.c was to
> > be a pretty lightweight wrapper, with the driver doing all the real
> > work.
>
> The multiopen locking in videodev.c was a mistake. I actually fixed the 2.4
> read/write locking on most of the radio devices so removing it shouldnt be
> too tricky.

Hi Alan,

may I ask what would the benefit gained from this would be ?
Does this mean that someone should go over all video drivers and put locks 
into them ?
If this was to be done what good is videodev.c ?

        Regards
                Oliver



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