Re: [PATCH 07/18] lirc driver for the CommandIR USB Transceiver

[Jarod Wilson]

Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> This driver has real locking problems.  Parts of it depend on the BKL, but
> I would have a hard time arguing for the addition of new BKL users in this
> century.  The assumption that ->open() is called under the BKL no longer
> holds.  It's really time to put a proper lock here.

The kernel-space drivers for CommandIR devices are being dropped entirely, in 
favor of the new userspace driver for it, which is included in the lirc 
0.8.4pre1 userspace.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod@xxxxxxxxxx

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