Re: [RFC 4/4] firewire: add mem1394

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:35 +0100, Andy Wingo wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 23:43 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > +	spin_lock(&dev_list_lock);
> 
> Stupid question: are you sure that something coming from an interrupt
> handler won't try to grab this lock? For example from a cable unplug?

Yes, I'm pretty sure (but I hope some of the firewire experts will chime
in) -- but if you unplug or anything the node only goes into 'limbo' and
afaict if it is ever cleaned up then that comes from a thread context.

johannes

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