Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 16:00:06 schrieb Alan Stern: > 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. This is true but hiddev is in a sense legacy code which should be replaced with hidraw, so I tend to fix it conservatively. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
