>> Are there any plausible race conditions associated with doing the allocation this way? > > well, theoretically, yes. > simultaneous add calls may happen in hotplug case, but I don't think an > ACPI ALS device supports hotplug. That would make that point irrelevant! Thinking further on this. What happens on a box that for some reason repeatedly inserts and removes this module? This is the sort of problem idr's are meant to overcome. They will cost you a bit in terms of complexity though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
