Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: oops in 2.4 usbserial serial_write

2004-01-20 Thread Al Borchers
Greg -- Greg KH wrote: > I agree. Care to do the port? :) Sure. I won't be able to start on until after Feb 5, though. -- Al --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration

[linux-usb-devel] Re: oops in 2.4 usbserial serial_write

2004-01-20 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 03:57:57PM -0600, Al Borchers wrote: > Greg -- > > Greg KH wrote: > > I agree. We can either use Pete's patch, or work on backporting the 2.6 > > code to 2.4 (no semaphores, and any locking that is needed must be > > handled by the individual drivers.) > > Thanks for the

[linux-usb-devel] Re: oops in 2.4 usbserial serial_write

2004-01-20 Thread Al Borchers
Greg -- Greg KH wrote: > I agree. We can either use Pete's patch, or work on backporting the 2.6 > code to 2.4 (no semaphores, and any locking that is needed must be > handled by the individual drivers.) Thanks for the pointer to Pete's patch--I did a quick search before posting but did not find

[linux-usb-devel] Re: oops in 2.4 usbserial serial_write

2004-01-20 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004 at 06:16:05AM -0600, Al Borchers wrote: > > We simply can't be using semaphores in interrupt code > like serial_write. We need to look at how usbserial.c > can better handle synchronization. I agree. We can either use Pete's patch, or work on backporting the 2.6 code to 2.4