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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>,
	David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: klists and struct device semaphores
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:26:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d500050329082665855878@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0503291055560.1038-100000@ida.rowland.org>

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:18:13 -0500 (EST), Alan Stern
<stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> With that change in place we can guarantee that every time a USB driver's
> probe() is called, both the interface and the parent device are locked.
> 
> I don't know how cleanly this can be implemented.  You probably don't want
> to lock dev->parent->sem every time, only when needed.  Maybe the simplest
> approach would be to add a flag in struct bus_type, which could be set for
> the USB bus_type and clear for everything else.
>

I think it is fine to lock parent unconditionally. After all
device/driver matching is not the most performance-critical part of
the kernel.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-29 16:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-26 16:53 klists and struct device semaphores Alan Stern
2005-03-28 16:56 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-28 19:48   ` Alan Stern
2005-03-29 16:38     ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-28 17:44 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-28 18:16   ` David Brownell
2005-03-28 18:43     ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-28 21:58   ` Alan Stern
2005-03-31  2:12     ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 16:18       ` Alan Stern
2005-03-31 17:59         ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 18:18           ` David Brownell
2005-03-31 18:26             ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 18:46               ` David Brownell
2005-03-31 19:08                 ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 19:08               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-29 16:18   ` Alan Stern
2005-03-29 16:26     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-03-31  2:16     ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31  3:01       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-03-31  5:47         ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 16:24       ` Alan Stern
2005-03-31 18:04         ` Patrick Mochel
2005-03-31 19:49           ` Alan Stern
2005-04-02 18:06   ` Alan Stern
2005-04-06  7:39     ` Patrick Mochel
2005-04-06 19:45       ` Alan Stern
2005-04-07 20:08         ` Patrick Mochel

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