Am Montag, 2. August 2004 21:35 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > that was my impression too. A better (but more intrusive) way of handling
> > dev->serialize
> > would be to turn it into a r/w semaphore. In that case usbfs would need to take
> > an additional
> > lock in a few places (a spinlock would suffice).
>
> I don't think people will stand for making ->serialize into an rwsem.
An rwsem, never ever can solve a race condition, Rwsems are _only_
a performance due to concurrence issue.
Regards
Oliver
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