Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 12 Jun 2015 09:25:04 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] parport: check exclusive access before register |
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 03:20:20PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote: > As of now we were starting the registration process and after the device > is registered we were checking if the device can be used by the > parport. Now lets check it first so that we do not need to go through > the registration process only to fail at the end. > The original exclusive access check at the end is still there so that we > do not get any surprises if two different process registers its device > with same parport and with exclusive access at the same time. > > Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> > --- > > Hi Greg, > One doubt - if anyone sends any patch regarding parport, it will be > addressed to me. so do i need to forward it to you?
Yes, please do so, I'll be glad to queue them up in my trees to go to Linus.
thanks,
greg k-h
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