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SubjectRe: Need to take dev->sem, do it directly or use wrapper?
On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:50:23AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Greg,
>
> I was looking at restructuring serio a bit and rely more on the
> infrastructure in the drivre core now that it is more flexible. It all
> looks good except for one detail - serio provides "reconnect" method
> which allows user to reinitialize a port whithout tearing down its
> children input devices. To properly serialize with probe(), remove() and
> other bus operations I'd need to take dev->sem semaphore. I(s bus code
> allowed to do this? Can I do it directly or we need to add a wrapper
> (like device_serialize_access(dev, bool))?

Adding a wrapper would be best to do.

thanks,

greg k-h


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