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From:
Alan Cox <alan@...>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...>, <video4linux-list@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, Alan Cox <alan@...>
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Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
Date: Monday, May 26, 2008 - 6:01 pm
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 06:10:27PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
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> The hardest and optimal scenario is to look inside all drivers, fix the locks > (and pray for a further patch to not break them). I'm afraid that this is a long > term strategy.
Ultimately that is where you end up.
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> For example, a very simple scenario would simply replace BKL by one mutex. > This way, just one ioctl could be handled at the same time. This is something
video2_ioctl_serialized() ? --
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[PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Thu May 22, 5:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Mon May 26, 12:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Mon May 26, 4:23 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Mon May 26, 5:10 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Mon May 26, 6:01 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Tue May 27, 9:10 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Jonathan Corbet
, (Tue May 27, 11:41 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Tue May 27, 12:31 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Tue May 27, 2:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Jonathan Corbet
, (Tue May 27, 12:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Tue May 27, 2:59 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Tue May 27, 3:50 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Tue May 27, 4:24 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Devin Heitmueller
, (Tue May 27, 3:26 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Tue May 27, 5:00 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Andy Walls
, (Tue May 27, 7:48 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Devin Heitmueller
, (Tue May 27, 8:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Hans Verkuil
, (Wed May 28, 2:13 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Andy Walls
, (Tue May 27, 10:37 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Wed May 28, 4:34 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Devin Heitmueller
, (Tue May 27, 10:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Devin Heitmueller
, (Tue May 27, 5:22 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mike Isely
, (Sun May 25, 7:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Hans Verkuil
, (Fri May 23, 3:05 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Jonathan Corbet
, (Fri May 23, 9:56 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Fri May 23, 11:39 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Jonathan Corbet
, (Fri May 23, 12:09 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Fri May 23, 2:58 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Andy Walls
, (Thu May 22, 10:08 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Alan Cox
, (Fri May 23, 5:09 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Mon May 26, 12:34 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Hans Verkuil
, (Mon May 26, 12:46 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Mon May 26, 5:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Hans Verkuil
, (Fri May 23, 2:16 am)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Mauro Carvalho Chehab
, (Mon May 26, 12:39 pm)
Re: [PATCH] video4linux: Push down the BKL
, Hans Verkuil
, (Fri May 23, 2:28 am)
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