On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Oliver Neukum wrote: > Am Freitag, 8. Januar 2010 18:56:19 schrieb Alan Stern: > > This patch (as1323) changes the locking requirements for > > usb_autosuspend_device(), usb_autoresume_device(), and > > usb_try_autosuspend_device(). This isn't a very important change; > > mainly it's meant to make the locking more uniform. > > This however affects memory allocation and access to user space. > You cannot access user space and memory must be allocated with > GFP_NOIO. > This should be documented and we need to audit the core. I don't understand. Can you explain more fully? Alan Stern -- 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
