On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 16:11 -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > I entered a patch which adds "exclusive_access" lock into 2.4.29, to fix > devices which cannot handle simultaneous accesses. This caused a regression > with European ADSL modems. An ioctl USBDEVFS_REAPURB allows a process to enter > the kernel and wait for USB I/O to finish. Naturally, this should not take > exclusive_access, or nothing will ever finish.
How does this compare with the locking in 2.6 kernels? Thanks, Duncan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
