On Sun, 7 Mar 2010, Jeff Chua wrote: > On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:11 AM, Linus Torvalds < > torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > How about this? It > > - makes the naming less atrocious > > - uses 'f_version' as suggested by Dmitry, which is obviously the > > RightThing(tm) to do. > > - uses an atomic event counter (with a simple but commented subtle thing > > to make sure that 'f_version = 0' always triggers as "new events might > > be pending") > > - gets rid of the insane locking on poll > > > > Can somebody test it? I in no way tested it, except it compiles for me. > > Applied the patch. It works for me. "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices" works > (vmware works as well)!!! Goodie. Alan, Greg, others - should I just commit it, or wait for you send it back to me? Acks or nak's? Linus -- 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