Am Montag 23 Juli 2007 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Now here's an idea which might work. Can we require every caller of
> device_add() to hold some existing device's semaphore? Normally it
> would be the semaphore of the new device's parent, but it could be a
> higher ancestor. There even could be a single "root" semaphore for
> drivers registering a top-level device with no parent.
What prevents us from having a device addition semaphore?
Adding device is not critical to performance, is it?
Regards
Oliver
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