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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, laforge@gnumonks.org
Subject: Re: My vision of usbmon
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:03:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041222050345.GA31076@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041221182514.5ed935e2@lembas.zaitcev.lan>

On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:14PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> 
> Generally, the type of coding which requires a use of memory barriers in drivers
> is a bug or a latent bug, so I am sorry for the above. It was a sacrifice to
> make usbmon invisible if it's not actively monitoring. Sorry about that.

Well, why do that?  Why not do something like the security hooks do, and
have a default "noop" hook if we don't have a monitor, and when you load
the monitor, it switches the hook to point to your code?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-22  5:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-20  7:04 My vision of usbmon Pete Zaitcev
     [not found] ` <200412201255.59120.oliver@neukum.org>
2004-12-20 12:21   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Pete Zaitcev
2004-12-22  0:57 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22  1:29   ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-12-22  5:06     ` Greg KH
2004-12-22  5:10       ` Greg KH
2004-12-22  1:38   ` Nick Piggin
2004-12-22  5:04     ` Greg KH
2004-12-22  5:34       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-12-22  6:43         ` Greg KH
     [not found] ` <200412201525.52149.oliver@neukum.org>
2004-12-22  2:25   ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-12-22  5:03     ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-12-22 20:46     ` Oliver Neukum
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-23 21:02 Chad Kitching
2005-01-11  1:36 ` Greg KH

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