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From: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>,
	Andries Brouwer <aebr@win.tue.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in keyboard.c (2.6.10)
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 04:50:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050129045055.GS8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050128105937.GA5963@ucw.cz>

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 11:59:37AM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> I'm very sorry about the locking, but the thing grew up in times of
> kernel 2.0, which didn't require any locking. There are a few possible

Incorrect.  You have blocking allocations in critical areas and they
required locking all way back.

> races with device registration/unregistration, and it's on my list to
> fix that, however under normal operation there shouldn't be any need for
> locks, as there are no complex structures built that'd become
> inconsistent. 

Um-hm...  Vojtech, meet USB mouse; USB mouse, meet Vojtech.  Now watch
a disconnect and reconnect happening when luser suddenly gets overexcited
and jerks the wrong hand a bit too hard while browsing the most profitable
sort of website...

> If you find scenarios which will lead to trouble in the event delivery
> system, please tell me, and I'll try to fix that as soon as possible.

See above.  Devices appearing and disappearing *are* normal.  

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-29  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-27  3:16 Sasa Stevanovic
2005-01-27  4:50 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-27 10:16   ` Sasa Stevanovic
2005-01-27 12:56 ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-28  0:39   ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-28 10:59     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-29  4:50       ` Al Viro [this message]
2005-01-29 11:25         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-29 23:35           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-31  9:01             ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-30  8:41           ` Al Viro
2005-01-30 23:21             ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-30 23:29               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-02-03  6:54               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-29 12:11       ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-29 14:04         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-30 20:13           ` Roman Zippel
2005-01-28 11:10     ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-28 21:59       ` Andries Brouwer
2005-01-29 11:12         ` Vojtech Pavlik
2005-01-29 23:30           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2005-01-30 23:16     ` Pavel Machek

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