From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: "Zephaniah E. Hull" <warp@aehallh.com>
Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" <arjan@infradead.org>,
linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Marcelo Tosatti" <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RPC] OLPC tablet input driver.
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:29:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000608290529j904b10bh58696820b159fcd4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060829084443.GA4187@aehallh.com>
On 8/29/06, Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@aehallh.com> wrote:
> >
> > also.. there's no locking visible anywhere in the driver... is this
> > right?
>
> It looks like psmouse handles it with a mutex lock around freeing stuff
> and calling the callback function pointers we set on init, so we
> _should_ be safe unless I've missed something.
>
> Add to it that none of the other psmouse drivers are doing locking on
> their own, and I'm fairly sure that this is correct. (But if someone
> knows better, please correct me.)
>
Serio and psmouse cores should handle all necessary locking, no worries here.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 12:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-29 7:33 Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-08-29 8:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-29 8:44 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-08-29 12:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-08-30 4:45 ` Greg KH
2006-08-29 8:55 ` Komal Shah
2006-08-29 10:40 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-08-29 12:26 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-29 9:00 ` Komal Shah
2006-08-29 12:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-29 14:35 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-08-29 15:12 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-10 20:10 ` [RFC] OLPC tablet input driver, take two Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-09-10 22:19 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-11 18:27 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-09-11 19:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-11 19:03 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-09-11 19:02 ` [RFC] OLPC tablet input driver, take three Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-09-11 19:10 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-09-12 19:39 ` Zephaniah E. Hull
2006-09-12 19:58 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-11-08 12:04 ` [RPC] OLPC tablet input driver Vojtech Pavlik
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