Re: Serial-Core: USB-Serial port current issues.

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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:32:33 -0700
Pete Zaitcev <[email protected]> wrote:

| On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:11:34 -0300, "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <[email protected]> wrote:
| 
| >  Pete, was it your original idea to completely move from the spinlock
| > to a mutex?
| 
| I thought it was the cleanest solution. But perhaps I miss something.
| I'll look at your reposted patch again, maybe it's all right as it is.

 Actually, that's the best solution from the USB-Serial's POV.

 The problem is that several serial drivers uses the uart_port's
spinlock to implement their own locking, and some of them acquires the
lock in its interrupt handler...

 Sh*t.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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