From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox),
lei_hu@ali.com.tw, alan@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver (0.14.10)
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:47:58 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200206062347.g56NlwZ17861@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CFFA55F.8000008@mandrakesoft.com> from "Jeff Garzik" at Jun 06, 2002 02:09:35 PM
> Why? Hardware semaphores are notorious for causing hangs. Nobody is
> sharing the hardware under Linux, so I think we should enable access on
> init, and not disable access until driver close. IMO the mixer should
> be guarded by a Linux kernel semaphore... I have a patch from Thomas
> Sailer (I think) lying around somewhere that does just that to the via
> audio driver. Maybe we can adapt it.
> (I cc'd this little detail, in my ali/trident.c patch review, to you)
So add a timeout to it ?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-06 23:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-06 6:27 [PATCH] update for ALi Audio Driver (0.14.10) lei_hu
2002-06-06 6:46 ` David S. Miller
2002-06-06 12:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-06-06 18:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-06 23:47 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2002-06-07 0:19 ` Jeff Garzik
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2002-06-07 1:52 lei_hu
2002-06-07 2:49 lei_hu
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