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

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Message-ID: <tkrat.55f8e340ac08be4c@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 5 Mar 2008 01:48:45 +0100 (CET)
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Jarod Wilson <jwilson@...hat.com>
cc:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Kristian Høgsberg <krh@...planet.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH update] firewire: reread config ROM when device reset the
 bus

I wrote:
>   - moved from dev->dem to idr_rwsem
>   - extended note about semaphore protection of .config_rom and
>     .config_rom_length
>   - secure a few more places which access the config_rom...
>     should have covered all of them now

Hmm.  When I power the PC down there are lots of messages scrolling by
which look somewhat like lockdep spew.  I can't reproduce this merely by
module unloading though.  So don't put this patch into production yet.
-- 
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/

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