Re: [PATCH 5/5] opticon: Fix resume logic

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Oct 06 2009 - 18:23:53 EST


On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 23:12:17 +0200
Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 6. Oktober 2009 17:06:57 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > Opticon now takes the right mutex to check the port status but the status
> > check is done wrongly for the modern serial code, so fix it.
>
> As Alan Stern noticed, it seems like we have an ab-ba deadlock here
> between open and resume regarding pm_mutex and port->mutex.

Oh well I guess someone with hardware will have to fix that.

Do we actually need a separate pm_mutex anyway ?
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