From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 04:18:53 +0000 Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: hotplugging to deal with firmware download Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > > Not only swap, but any file opened for writing may be written to > > if you allocate memory. > > If a file is opened for writing, it doesn't matter whether you allocate > memory or not, it still may be written to. Sync, journalling, that > process dirtying more pages, whatever. Exactly. But you deadlock only if the firmware download blocks on such a write. Ordinarily you can just wait until the firmware has been downloaded. That this is currently not implemented is unfortunately true and warrants a seperate discussion. Regards Oliver _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel