Am Montag, 29. März 2010 15:46:59 schrieb Jiri Kosina: > > it seems to me you cannot deadlock with the BKL and an rwsem, > > as BKL will be dropped if a task blocks on the rwsem. > > Ah, right you are. > > > This is not a nice feature of the BKL to use. Do you have an alternative > > idea? > > Not right now, without introducing additional lock into USB core or > redesigning the hiddev node registration completely. Hmmm ... Then you might want to add a comment so the next developer who wants to eradicate BKL is warned. 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
