On Tuesday 23 December 2008, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hello HPS, others, > > I was just running a grep on the USB2 code and saw the following: > > $ grep -r Giant sys/dev/usb2/serial | wc -l > 70 > > WHat's the exact reason USB2 still uses Giant on TTY related drivers? > Couldn't it just use the per-TTY mutex? If not, maybe it should create a > custom system-wide mutex, instead of using Giant? > > Yours,
Hi, I don't have all those USB devices at hand, so I simply cannot test if the driver still works without Giant. BTW: It should be trivial to remove Giant from the drivers. I think Andrew Thompson has already done some drivers Giant-free. --HPS _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
