Re: Fix locking in mousedev

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 3/9/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2007 09:28:49 -0500, "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2/28/07, Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > > Dmitry, please consider getting rid of the list of handles entirely.
> > > The other major user is drivers/char/keyboard.c.
> >
> > I agree that handlers should not access h_list nad use their own
> > private lists instead. However input core still needs that list to
> > maintain its books.
>
> Hmm. So it appears that my patch wastes 2 ulongs per input handle
> then, in the name of preventing oopses. OK.

Think about the time when everyone switches to evdev-based input
drivers. Then we can forget about mousedev wasting some extra memory
;)

--
Dmitry
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