On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Duncan Sands wrote:
> > That's not quite true. You could acquire dev->parent->sem always, just to
> > be certain. However USB shouldn't use this form of multithreaded probing
> > in any case; it should instead use multiple threads for khubd.
>
> Is anyone working on this (multiple threads for khubd)?
Not as far as I know. It should be trivial, though. Just start several
threads instead of only one during initialization, and stop them all
during cleanup. And have the threads use a wait queue instead of calling
wait_event_interruptible().
Alan Stern
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