On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:47:37 +0100, Paolo Abeni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > #2 - The setting and testing of the monitoring flag was completely
> > ignored by the patch. 
> 
> Am I missing something or the 'monitored' flag is used to double check
> the usbmon structures consistence ?!? In an ideal (bugless) world could
> this flag be removed ?!? (I'm not asking to do that!!! it's just
> informative)

The flag is there to prevent us from calling functions and taking locks.
It is only an optimization (arguably, even a premature one). Always when
such techniques are used, there's ugliness, mb(), and synchronize_irq().
The alternative is to take spinlocks.

Anyway, please look at the patch which I sent and see if you find any
races, especially on rmmod and reader exits.

> > This is not ready to go to Greg yet. 
> 
> What about the device patch ? Should we send differential patch against
> it or just ignore?

I do not understand, sorry. If you are talking about the patch which
adds a device in a class, I think that is already in.

-- Pete

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