Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [OOPS, usbcore, releaseintf] 2.6.0-test10-mm1

[bill davidsen]

In article <3FD92632.50200@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Brownell  <david-b@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| The more I think about it, the more I like your idea of
| changing device->serialize to be an rwsem.  Changing config,
| or resetting the device, would get the writelock.  All other
| uses should share, with readlocks -- that's the right model.
| 
| Likely not before 2.6.1 though ... ;)

It's not clear one way or the other, since there is an oops involved it
seems a bugfix is in order. It chould be fixed, perhaps the change
described above could be accepted, since it's clearly a bugfix for a
serious problem.

Not our choice, but arguable...
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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