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On Wed, 14 May 2008, Alan Cox wrote: > > Here is a fun one for general discussion - right now driver probe > functions request resources. We have no ordering on the requests so we > have deadlocks if two drivers do resource requests for conflicting > resources in reverse order. resource requests aren't blocking, so it wouldn't actually be a deadlock. It would just be a "both failed, try again". That said, two drivers shouldn't be probing the same hardware at the same time regardless, so I can't imagine that it's much of a problem in real life. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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