Re: cleanup of hiddev

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On Tue, 4 Nov 2008, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Montag, 3. November 2008 20:58:11 schrieb Jiri Slaby:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > > this is the cleanup of hiddev against current vanilla. What do you think?
> > 
> > See my comments below.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> there still is a race of disconnect() with ioctl(). It seems like that
> code still operates under the assumption that both methods take
> BKL. Do you prefer a conservative fix with selective application of BKL
> or introduction of a new mutex?

It's none of my business... but IMO we should try to move away from the 
BKL as much as possible.

Alan Stern

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