Re: [announce] "kill the Big Kernel Lock (BKL)" tree

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 14 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Here is a fun one for general discussion - right now driver probe
> functions request resources. We have no ordering on the requests so we
> have deadlocks if two drivers do resource requests for conflicting
> resources in reverse order.

resource requests aren't blocking, so it wouldn't actually be a deadlock. 
It would just be a "both failed, try again".

That said, two drivers shouldn't be probing the same hardware at the same 
time regardless, so I can't imagine that it's much of a problem in real 
life. 

		Linus
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