| Date | Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:21:55 -0400 | From | Jarod Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 07/18] lirc driver for the CommandIR USB Transceiver |
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Jonathan Corbet wrote: > This driver has real locking problems. Parts of it depend on the BKL, but > I would have a hard time arguing for the addition of new BKL users in this > century. The assumption that ->open() is called under the BKL no longer > holds. It's really time to put a proper lock here.
The kernel-space drivers for CommandIR devices are being dropped entirely, in favor of the new userspace driver for it, which is included in the lirc 0.8.4pre1 userspace.
-- Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com
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