On Tuesday 27 October 2009 14:00:09 ext Mark Brown wrote: > > I have to confess that I'm still not entirely clear what the lock is > supposed to be doing or why it's OK to drop it. I gather that it's just > that dmap_on_mode() doesn't need a lock at all? In my opinion it does not need a lock. If the user space is so broken that it is doing different things in parallel, I would rather crash the kernel if it is possible to force someone to fix the mess upstairs. But the lock is not needed, I think it was a result of over-engineering. -- Péter _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
