Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2001 15:02:04 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: /dev/nvram driver |
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Tim Hockin wrote: > Who is maintaining the /dev/nvram driver? I have a couple things I want to > suggest/ask.
I haven't seen any patches for ages to nvram, so I presume nobody.
> What I really want to know is: should I bother making nvram_open_cnt SMP > safe, or should it just go away all together. I vote for the latter > option, unless something depends on this behavior (in which case, other > fixes are needed, because it is broken :).
Once you figure out what the best behavior is (which I'm not sure of, myself), I would suggest using a semaphore in the open and release methods.
Jeff
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