Re: [PATCH] USB: prevent char device open/deregister race

Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007 17:28 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > Although I really hate rw locks, I'll let it go for now, we can easily
> > change it to a "normal" mutex in the future...
> 
> In case it wasn't already obvious, the reason for making it an rwsem 
> was so that multiple open() calls could run concurrently, just as 
> before.

This is one of the few places an rw-lock actually makes sense.

	Regards
		Oliver


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