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From: Thomas Sailer <sailer@scs.ch>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for bizzare oops in USB
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:29:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B821BDD.9743D8A5@scs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010818013101.A7058@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <3B80FBA9.556B7B2B@scs.ch> <20010820170614.A28653@devserv.devel.redhat.com>

Pete Zaitcev schrieb:

> Would you mind to explain how a user of usb_control_msg may
> depend on the sleep being interruptible? Forgets to set a timeout?

You may want to be able to kill a process that waits for a control
message to complete. Especially user processes via devio.c, but
quite possibly also user apps via some kernel driver.

devio.c had its own version of usb_control_msg for that reason,
but it was felt unnecessary and removed.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-21  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-08-18  5:31 Patch for bizzare oops in USB Pete Zaitcev
2001-08-20 11:59 ` Thomas Sailer
2001-08-20 21:06   ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-08-21  8:29     ` Thomas Sailer [this message]
2001-08-20 21:44   ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-08-21  4:01     ` Johannes Erdfelt
2001-08-21  4:17       ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-08-20 22:12   ` Eugene Crosser

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