On Sunday 30 January 2005 03:41, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 12:25:10PM +0100, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> > I know. As I said, this is a problem I know about, and will be fixed. I
> > was mainly interested whether anyone sees further problems in scenarios
> > which don't include device addition/removal.
> > 
> > We already fixed this in serio, and input and gameport are next in the
> > list.
> 
> OK, I'll bite.  What's to guarantee that no events will happen in
> the middle of serio_unregister_port(), right after we'd done
> serio_remove_pending_events()?

At this point serio is disconnected from driver and serio_interrupt
will only queue rescans only if serio->registered. I guess I will need
to protect change to serio->registered and take serio->lock to be
completely in clear.

Thanks for pointing this out.

-- 
Dmitry
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