From: Oliver Neukum <Oliver.Neukum@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] 2.5 videodev redesign -- #3
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:45:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iss.60a3.3c83c0b3.49eef.3@mailout.lrz-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020302151538.A7839@bytesex.org> <slrna86gll.lh9.kraxel@bytesex.org> <slrna86rcl.mtf.kraxel@bytesex.org>
In-Reply-To: <slrna86rcl.mtf.kraxel@bytesex.org>
Am Montag, 4. März 2002 13:50 schrieb Gerd Knorr:
> Gerd Knorr wrote:
> > > > Comments? Bugs? I plan to feed this to Linus soon ...
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it seems to me that you are not holding the BKL during
> > > the open method of the individual driver. This will
> > > cause races with unplugging on some USB cameras.
> >
> > What race exactly?
>
> Ok, I've found one: videodev_unregister() must be locked against
> video_open(). New version of the patch below.
OK. It seems that I took the principle of doing little changes only
too far. Thhis patch seems to solve the problem.
Regards
Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-04 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-02 14:15 Gerd Knorr
2002-03-04 8:17 ` Oliver Neukum
2002-03-04 9:47 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-04 12:50 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-04 18:45 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2002-03-04 13:54 ` Oliver Neukum
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