Re: [bug report] System hang up with Speedtouch USB hotplug

[Robert Love]

On Mon, 2001-11-19 at 05:12, Duncan Sands wrote:
> Johan Verrept's driver has two parts: a kernel module and
> a user space management utility.  The kernel module is open
> source (GPL).  It has problems with SMP and preempt, but
> otherwise works well.

Anything that has problems with SMP is going to have problems with
preempt.  Further, most any module will need to be compiled as a
preemptible kernel version, just like you need SMP versions.

Binary modules just are always going to be a problem unless we
standardize more, and I'm not saying that is a good idea ...

	Robert Love