Arjan van de Ven wrote:
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:17:29 +0100
"Phil Endecott" <phil_dubhl_endecott@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It looks to me as if uhci holds some lock that 8250 needs before it
can complete. Now those are both PCI drivers in the same way that
the last two that seemed to contend were both input drivers (touchpad
and speaker) [hmm, except that as Dmitry pointed out there's a
distinction between the platform bus and the serio bus]. Anyway, my
ignorant suspicion is that there's some lock related to the bus or
subsystem that they both need. Maybe something in sysfs?
it does do this. And I know which lock... and I fixed it ;)
Just the patch for this is in Gregkh's tree since it's a change to the
device/sysfs layer and he wanted to carry it via that way.
I can dig that patch out if you want
Yes please!
Phil.
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