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Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function

From Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function
Date 2016-02-16 09:30 +0100
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On Mon, 2016-02-15 at 18:49 -0800, Keith Packard wrote:
> Call signal_pending before reading a chunk of data from the device so
> that long read operations can be interrupted with a signal.

Hi,

why is this needed? You are doing this right after a
mutex_lock_interruptible().

	Regards
		Oliver

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[PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> - 2016-02-16 04:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-16 09:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> - 2016-02-16 20:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> - 2016-02-17 16:10 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> - 2016-02-17 19:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH] usb: check for signals in chaoskey read function Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> - 2016-02-17 19:30 +0100

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