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.
next prev parent 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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