Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: [patch] 2.5 videodev redesign -- #3 | Date | 4 Mar 2002 09:47:33 GMT |
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> > 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?
I don't want videodev.c know details about the devices, it doesn't belong there. If a usb cam needs locking, the usb cam's open() function should do that then. I'll prefare fixing the usb drivers instead of calling driver->open() with BKL held.
Gerd
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