On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 05:08:31AM -0400, Stefan Richter wrote: > I wrote: > > What happens if the calls or the call arguments aren't balanced, e.g. > > due to a mistake in an error path? The kernel will hang? > > Yes, unless the waiting subsystems implement timeouts. This is absolutely correct. It would, of course, be possible to add a timeout, but it would really be papering over a bug. If this every happened, the proper thing would be to fix the problem. > Stefan Richter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
