From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parport: check exclusive access before register
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:25:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150612162504.GA16363@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1434102620-2564-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:20:20PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> As of now we were starting the registration process and after the device
> is registered we were checking if the device can be used by the
> parport. Now lets check it first so that we do not need to go through
> the registration process only to fail at the end.
> The original exclusive access check at the end is still there so that we
> do not get any surprises if two different process registers its device
> with same parport and with exclusive access at the same time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
>
> Hi Greg,
> One doubt - if anyone sends any patch regarding parport, it will be
> addressed to me. so do i need to forward it to you?
Yes, please do so, I'll be glad to queue them up in my trees to go to
Linus.
thanks,
greg k-h
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2015-06-12 9:50 [PATCH] parport: check exclusive access before register Sudip Mukherjee
2015-06-12 16:25 ` Greg KH [this message]
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