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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Need to take dev->sem, do it directly or use wrapper?
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 12:04:36 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100104200436.GA22515@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100104185023.GA2597@core.coreip.homeip.net>

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:50:23AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Greg,
> 
> I was looking at restructuring serio a bit and rely more on the
> infrastructure in the drivre core now that it is more flexible. It all
> looks good except for one detail - serio provides "reconnect" method
> which allows user to reinitialize a port whithout tearing down its
> children input devices. To properly serialize with probe(), remove() and
> other bus operations I'd need to take dev->sem semaphore. I(s bus code
> allowed to do this? Can I do it directly or we need to add a wrapper
> (like device_serialize_access(dev, bool))?

Adding a wrapper would be best to do.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-04 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-04 18:50 Need to take dev->sem, do it directly or use wrapper? Dmitry Torokhov
2010-01-04 20:04 ` Greg KH [this message]

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