Am Montag, 27. Februar 2012, 14:58:59 schrieb Bjørn Mork: > Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > strictly speaking atomic variables must be initialized. One cannot depend > > on a binary 0 meaning that an atomic ariable is 0 and ready to use. > > OK, so should I integrate something like this in the patch and resubmit, > this time including netdev in the discussions? : The absolutely correct way is to use ATOMIC_INIT as described in Documentation/atomic_ops.txt And yes, please repost to netdev [..] > Maybe also include all the known Gobi devices in the ID list? Or is that > too risky? People may be using the out-of-tree Gobi driver and this > will never be fully compatible with userspace for that one. They can of > course blacklist this driver if they want to, but still.. Generally, if somebody maintains a driver out of the kernel tree, they are on their own. Including all IDs improves the kernel by supporting more devices, so go for it :-) 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
