Re: [PATCH 4/4] usb: libusual: locking cleanup

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On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 09:01:50 -0800, Daniel Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> Then in usu_probe_thread() your basically stopping it at the start of
> the function with a down(), and the up() is just ancillary .. So you
> could easily move the up() further down in the function and still have
> the same level of exclusion.. 

The unfortunate complication here is request_module. I didn't want to
keep a semaphore locked across it, in case child waits for something.
I wonder if there may be some deadlock that we cannot foresee.
But I guess it won't hurt to try.

I tested the patch and it seems to work ok.

-- Pete
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