On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stern <[email protected]> wrote: > > Would you prefer to use device_trylock in a loop? I guess this comes
Yes, looks trylock in loop is safer than locking simply, and another advantage is that the buggy device or driver can be logged. So will do the v2 using trylock. > down to which you prefer: a hang during shutdown, or a crash. :-) Considered that the device or driver can be logged, either hang or crash will be fixed later by someone, :-) Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
