From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
arjan@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] initdev:kernel:Asynchronously-discovered device synchronization, v6
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:08:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A2A320F.5020008@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A2A2C26.1070106@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
I wrote:
> What happens if the calls or the call arguments aren't balanced, e.g.
> due to a mistake in an error path? The kernel will hang?
Yes, unless the waiting subsystems implement timeouts.
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Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-06 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-06 2:34 David VomLehn
2009-06-06 8:43 ` Stefan Richter
2009-06-06 9:08 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2009-06-08 22:11 ` David VomLehn
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