On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 11:24:23AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > This patch (as536) simplifies the driver-model core by replacing the klist
> > used to store the set of devices bound to a driver with a regular list
> > protected by a mutex. It turns out that even with a klist, there are too
> > many opportunities for races for the list to be used safely by more than
> > one thread at a time. And given that only one thread uses the list at any
> > moment, there's no need to add all the extra overhead of making it a
> > klist.
>
> Hm, but that was the whole reason to go to a klist in the first place.
And shows once more that the klist approach was totally misguided.
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