Re: [PATCH] Driver Core patches for 2.6.10-rc1

[Russell King]

On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:57:57PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> This patch fixes the problem by using a separate semaphore, called
> dpm_list_sem, to cover the places where we need the device pm lists to be
> stable, and by being careful about how we traverse the lists on suspend and
> resume.  I have analysed the various cases that can occur and I am
> confident that I have handled them all correctly.  I posted this patch
> together with a detailed analysis 10 days ago.

Does this mean that a device driver can have its suspend or resume
methods called in the middle of a probe or remove on a different CPU ?
(note: x86 APM does not freeze all processes last time I checked...)

If yes, has anyone audited the drivers to ensure that they're correct
in respect of this?

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 PCMCIA      - http://pcmcia.arm.linux.org.uk/
                 2.6 Serial core
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