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SubjectRe: [PATCH] powerpc: remove useless spinlock from mpc83xx watchdog
All,

> On Iau, 2006-01-19 at 14:48 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 09:49:16AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > f = open("/dev/watchdog", O_RDWR);
> > > fork();
> > > while(1) {
> > > write(f, "Boing", 5);
> > > }
> >
> > Oops.
> >
> > At least 50% of the watchdog drivers rely solely on the "wdt_is_open"
> > atomic variable and are broken with respect to synchronization.
>
> What an excellent janitors project

I'll have a look at it from a global point of view.

Greetings,
Wim.

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