Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: introduce ACPI ALS device driver

[Jonathan Cameron]

>> Are there any plausible race conditions associated with doing the allocation this way?
> 
> well, theoretically, yes.
> simultaneous add calls may happen in hotplug case, but I don't think an
> ACPI ALS device supports hotplug.
That would make that point irrelevant!

Thinking further on this. What happens on a box that for some reason repeatedly inserts and
removes this module?

This is the sort of problem idr's are meant to overcome.  They will cost you a bit
in terms of complexity though.

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