Re: [PATCH 00/10] usb-serial: Switches from spin lock to atomic_t.

[Luiz Fernando Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 08:41:18 -0800
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:

| On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 09:56:10AM -0200, Luiz Fernando Capitulino wrote:
| >  Greg,
| > 
| >  Don't get scared. :-)
| 
| I'm not scared, just not liking this patch series at all.
| 
| In the end, it's just moving from one locking scheme to another.  No big
| deal.

 I understand.

| The problem is, none of this should be needed at all.  We need to move
| the usb-serial drivers over to use the serial core code.  If that
| happens, then none of this locking is needed.
| 
| That's the right thing to do, so I'm not going to take this patch series
| right now because of that.  If you all want to work on moving to use the
| serial core, I would love to see that happen.

 If it's the right thing to do, I'll love to work on that. :)

 There is only one problem though, I've never touched in the serial core.
It means I'll need some time to do it, and maybe the first tries can be
wrong.

 Any tips you have in mind are very welcome.

 Eduardo, let's do it? :)

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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