Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Aug 2001 10:29:17 +0200 | From | Thomas Sailer <> | Subject | Re: Patch for bizzare oops in USB |
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Pete Zaitcev schrieb:
> Would you mind to explain how a user of usb_control_msg may > depend on the sleep being interruptible? Forgets to set a timeout?
You may want to be able to kill a process that waits for a control message to complete. Especially user processes via devio.c, but quite possibly also user apps via some kernel driver.
devio.c had its own version of usb_control_msg for that reason, but it was felt unnecessary and removed.
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