Am Donnerstag, 30. Juli 2009 22:41:06 schrieb Alan Stern: > Oliver: > > The BKL gets used in several places within usbcore. As far as I can > tell, all but one of them are unnecessary -- the exception being > usb_device_poll() in devices.c. And that should be replaced with a > private mutex, or perhaps we could use usbfs_mutex. With respect to poll I agree. With respect to open() I dimly remember that hiddev needs BKL. Maybe jkosina remembers. I am sceptical about file.c::remount. ext2 takes it, too. usb_device_lseek() would also need a spinlock. Regards Oliver -- 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
