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SubjectRe: [RPC] OLPC tablet input driver.
On 8/29/06, Zephaniah E. Hull <warp@aehallh.com> wrote:
> >
> > also.. there's no locking visible anywhere in the driver... is this
> > right?
>
> It looks like psmouse handles it with a mutex lock around freeing stuff
> and calling the callback function pointers we set on init, so we
> _should_ be safe unless I've missed something.
>
> Add to it that none of the other psmouse drivers are doing locking on
> their own, and I'm fairly sure that this is correct. (But if someone
> knows better, please correct me.)
>

Serio and psmouse cores should handle all necessary locking, no worries here.

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Dmitry
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