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Subject: Re: input: Oops when unplugging opened Wacom USB device
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 23:08:16 +0200
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On Friday 21 July 2006 20:53, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Magnus Vigerlöf <wigge@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > Does somebody knows the reason for the lack of locking in this part
> > of the code? The code is similar and the problems may be the same
> > in joydev.c and tsdev.c as well.
>
> Ahem, well, just lack of time I suppose. I am starting adding some
> locking to the input core, once its done we can work on locking in
> handlers.

Ah, good to know it's on the TODO-list. I do have a way around this 
race-condition so I'm not severly affected by it.

 Magnus