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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, ehabkost@mandriva.com,
	zaitcev@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/10] usb-serial: Switches from spin lock to atomic_t.
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 13:02:07 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051206130207.7658636e.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051206181449.11947f4f.lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005 18:14:49 -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> wrote:

>  The spinlock makes the code less clear, error prone, and we already a
> semaphore in the struct usb_serial_port.
> 
>  The spinlocks _seems_ useless to me.

Dude, semaphores are not compatible with interrupts. Surely you
understand that?

-- Pete

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 21:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-06 11:56 [PATCH 00/10] usb-serial: Switches from spin lock to atomic_t Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-06 19:40 ` Greg KH
2005-12-06 20:13   ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2005-12-06 22:48     ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2005-12-07 12:24       ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 12:27         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 12:30           ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 12:34             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 12:41               ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 12:54                 ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 15:07       ` Alan Stern
2005-12-07 15:22         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 15:37           ` Oliver Neukum
2005-12-07 15:40             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 15:50               ` Oliver Neukum
2005-12-07 16:02                 ` Alan Cox
2005-12-07 16:00           ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2005-12-07 16:02             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 16:23               ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2005-12-07 16:01           ` Alan Stern
2005-12-07 16:04             ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-07 15:32         ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-12-07 16:08           ` Alan Stern
2005-12-06 20:14   ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-06 21:02     ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2005-12-06 21:18       ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-06 22:36         ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum
2005-12-07 12:25           ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 13:01             ` Oliver Neukum
2005-12-07 13:17               ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 16:41 ` Greg KH
2005-12-07 16:51   ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-07 17:13     ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2005-12-07 17:56       ` Greg KH
2005-12-07 19:10         ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost
2005-12-07 16:55   ` Otavio Salvador
2005-12-07 16:59     ` Greg KH

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