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From: Eduardo Pereira Habkost <ehabkost@mandriva.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>,
	gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] usb-serial: URB write locking macros.
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2005 10:46:22 -0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051206124621.GK13801@duckman.conectiva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1133871843.4836.15.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

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On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 01:24:03PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 09:57 -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino wrote:
> >  Introduces URB write locking macros.
> 
> ugh.. WHY ?

Maybe we need a better description for the patch: the locking is already
there (the 'lock' field in struct sub_serial_port), and there is no
change of behaviour, just replacing a (spin_lock_t, int) by an atomic_t.

The purpose of the changes is removing the spinlock, because it is used
only to protect write_urb_busy, and if someday we need locking on other
parts, we already have a semaphore (introduced by Capitulino some time
ago, to fix a open()/close() race condition).

-- 
Eduardo

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-06 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-06 11:57 Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-06 12:24 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-06 12:37   ` Luiz Fernando Capitulino
2005-12-06 12:46   ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost [this message]
2005-12-06 12:35 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Oliver Neukum

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