[RFC PATCH v1 4/6] USB: EHCI: don't release ehci->lock if URB giveback in tasklet context
Alan Stern
stern at rowland.harvard.edu
Tue Jun 18 12:43:52 EDT 2013
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, Ming Lei wrote:
> If HCD_BH is set for HC driver's flags, URB giveback will be
> done in tasklet context instead of interrupt context, so the
> ehci->lock needn't to be released any more before calling
> usb_hcd_giveback_urb().
It is premature to do this now. This should be part of the 6/6 patch,
when it won't be necessary to test hcd_giveback_urb_in_bh().
Alan Stern
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