Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Dunlap, Randy" <> | Subject | RE: Updated Linux 2.4 issues page | Date | Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:58:46 -0700 |
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> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@wirex.com] > Sent: Monday, August 21, 2000 3:53 PM > > On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 04:26:58AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > > > > 9. To Do > > > > * Misc locking problems > > + drivers/usb/*.c > > o unsafe sleep_on in ibmcam and ov511 drivers > > This should now read: > o unsafe sleep_on in ibmcam, ov511, plusb and uss720 > drivers > > Sorry for stating differently before. Problems in the plusb and uss720 > drivers were pointed out to me after I last wrote. > > > o usbpl_{read,write}(): on UP concurrent read/write > > operations could corrupt the urb structures if > > copy_to_user sleeps, on SMP it's worse. > > Again, what does this refer to? What functions, and in what > files? There > is no usbpl_ functions and I can't find any past references to them. > Does anyone know what this means?
Could these be usblp_{read,write}() instead? (in usb/printer.c)
Not that that helps me understand the problem...
~Randy
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