On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 03:08:30PM -0500, Al Borchers wrote: > Greg -- > > >>Also, I still plan to backport the USB serial locking from 2.6 to > >>2.4, if you will accept that. > > > >This late in the 2.4 development cycle, I don't really know. If it > >fixes real bugs, probably. Otherwise I doubt it. > > As we have talked about before, the semaphore in usbserial write leads > to an oops if the semaphore is held and write is called on interrupt > time. Remember, write can be called from an interrupt under certain > circumstances and you can't use semaphores then.
Oh yeah, forgot about that, it's been a long time since I last ran 2.4 :) So yes, fixes for this would be accepted. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
