Re: [PATCH 4/5] usb_serial: Kill port mutex

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2009 18:03:08 schrieb Alan Stern:
> On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > We will need some generic way to autoresume from open.
> > Resume will need to lock against open() and need to be called
> > from within open(). Any ideas for an unugly interface?
>
> It's not quite that bad.  Resume doesn't need to lock against open.
> If open is called while resume is running then when it tries to do its
> own resume, it will either block (waiting for the pm_mutex) or return
> immediately (if it sees the device is already resumed).

But resume() needs to know whether the read URBs need to be
submitted or not.

	Regards
		Oliver

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