Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753905AbZFFJJZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:09:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752555AbZFFJJN (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:09:13 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:60791 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751848AbZFFJJL (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Jun 2009 05:09:11 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4A2A320F.5020008@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:08:31 +0200 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090411 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David VomLehn CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, greg@kroah.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] initdev:kernel:Asynchronously-discovered device synchronization, v6 References: <20090606023403.GA5645@cuplxvomd02.corp.sa.net> <4A2A2C26.1070106@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <4A2A2C26.1070106@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 509 Lines: 14 I wrote: > What happens if the calls or the call arguments aren't balanced, e.g. > due to a mistake in an error path? The kernel will hang? Yes, unless the waiting subsystems implement timeouts. -- Stefan Richter -=====-==--= -==- --==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/