linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firewire: reread config ROM when device reset the bus

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Date:	Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:39:51 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
CC:	Kristian H?gsberg <krh@...planet.net>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firewire: reread config ROM when device reset the bus

Greg KH wrote:
> Ah, semaphore fun in the device.  If at all
> possible, use your own, not the driver core as the locking there is a
> bit "odd" as you have seen.  I think Alan Stern has some patches pending
> to mess with it all to try to make it sane during the suspend/resume
> path.

OK, I will redo it so that I don't have to assume anything about 
driver-core internal locking.  Thanks,
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Stefan Richter
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