On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 21:12:28 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Replacing a spinlock with an rwlock -- did it really happen that way? I > got the impression that the rwlock was there all along, and then was taken > out of notifier_call_chain because some people wanted their entry to > remove itself. I am sorry, I misread a patch which I googled out. 2.2.19 did not have any locking of the notifier whatsoever, and all functions were inlines in <linux/notifier.h> 2.4.0-test2 adds the rwlock with read lock around the callout. -- Pete ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ [email protected] To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
